Mining Incidents

Klondex Midas Operations, Inc.Operator

Controlled by Hecla Mining Company
MSHA Operator ID: 0132974
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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#321of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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.

For counsel + compliance teams

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under Klondex Midas Operations, Inc.. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

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

Incident timeline

2019
1
2018
5
2017
3
2016
6
2015
6
2014
5 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

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.