Mining Incidents

Butte Highlands Metal/Non-Metal

Highland Mining LLC. · Underground
Controlled by Sima Muroff
Butte, Silver Bow County, MT  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2402563

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2013
Latest incident
Dec 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
49
citations
9
significant & substantial
$7,414
proposed penalties
$7,041
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q2 120 2 0 16666.7
2014 Q4 815 2 0 2454.0
2014 Q3 630 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 6,357 3 1 471.9
2013 Q4 8,193 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 3,618 13 1 3593.1
2012 Q2 659 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 1,902 1 0 525.8
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2013 · 1 incident

December 9, 2013 MT · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator MACHINERY
Highland Mining LLC. · Struck by flying object

Employee was helping miners bolt heading. Injured employee was putting bolts together approx 8 feet from the miner. Miner began collaring bolt holes and the water coming out of the end of the steel washed some mud from the back and employee was hit in the face with the mud. Mud got into the injured persons eye.