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HOISTING

220170090008 · 01/07/2017 · 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
Mine experience
— years

Operator

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

Narrative

Outage on Hoist #2 due to cold weather. MSHA was notified at 3:55 am by Mike Law. Evacuation started at 3:53 am and was complete at 4:05 am. The hoist was repaired at 10:25 am and the miners went back underground at 10:45 am. Heat was added to prevent the outage from happening again. No injuries occurred.

Source

Authoritative
MSHA Open Government Data
Machine
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