Employee had partially drilled a hole using a jackleg drill. A coworker discovered him unconscious/unresponsive, slumped over the drill. It was later determined the employee's clothes were wound up in the 6' drill steel though the cause & nature of the accident & cause of death remain undetermined and under investigation.
Klondex Midas Operations, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 26
- Mines on record
- 1
- Period
- —
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Reedy Coal Company Inc1fatal26 total
- RMC Nevada, Inc.1fatal26 total
- Appalachian Resource West Virginia,LLC1fatal26 total
- Jacob Mining Co LLC1fatal26 total
- Klondex Midas Operations, Inc.this operator1fatal26 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS8 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE3 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 non-fatal