# HOISTING
> MSHA accident `220150350031` · 01/24/2015 · Intrepid Potash-New Mexico, LLC
## 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:** —
- **Mine experience:** — years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Hugh E  Harvey
- **Operator:** Intrepid Potash-New Mexico, LLC
- **Mine:** [2900170](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2900170)
## Narrative

Shaft crew was lowering VFD unit under conveyance in service shaft.  Sling eye failed shifting weight and causing VFD to bind in shaft and fall aprox 250 feet to bottom.  No injury or entrapment. Damage to VFD and 2 guide sections.  MSHA hotline report within 15-minutes

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