Mine safety penalties are pretty meaningless if they aren’t paid, and more so if they aren’t assessed.
Injury Control & Violence
Ignoring geologist’s recommendation had deadly consequences at Lucky Friday mine
Last week’s violent rock burst at the Hecla Mining’s Lucky Friday mine was just one of several catastrophic events this year at the deep underground silver mine in Mullan, Idaho. Another rockburst occurred a month earlier, and just one day before another incident in which 26 year old Brandon Gray was engulfed in muck as […]
Injury Control & Violence
20 miners escape violent rockburst at Idaho silver mine, April and November incidents killed two workers
Just before 8:00 pm local time, a powerful burst of rock exploded in an area where at least 20 miners were working in the Lucky Friday mine. All the miners escaped to safety but several remain hospitalized. This silver mine in the Coeur d’Alene region has been the site of numerous serious incidents this year, […]