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HOISTING

220120300009 · 01/25/2012 · Morton Salt Inc

Details

Degree of injury
ACCIDENT ONLY
Classification
HOISTING
Accident type
Accident type, without injuries
Occupation
Activity
Injury source
Nature of injury
Body part
Days lost
0
Mine experience
— years

Operator

Controller (parent)
K+S Aktiengesellschaft
Operator
Morton Salt Inc
Mine
4101776

Narrative

A hoisting control breaker tripped resulting in an hoist outage. Cause of trip believed to have been unusually wet conditions and humidity. Miners were evacuated at 10:26am. and out of the mine at 10:42 am. The control breaker was tested and reset. The hoist was tested and miners returned U.G. at 10:45a.m.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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