Mining Incidents

Klondex Midas Operations, Inc. operator

Controlled by Hecla Mining Company
MSHA operator ID: 0132974

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
26
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2014–2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
404
citations
84
significant & substantial
$347,432
proposed penalties
$268,854
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2019
1
2018
5
2017
3
2016
6
2015
6
2014
5 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
April 28, 2014 NV · Metal/Non-Metal stoper miner Fatality · MACHINERY
Klondex Midas Operations, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee had partially drilled a hole using a jackleg drill. A coworker discovered him unconscious/unresponsive, slumped over the drill. It was later determined the employee's clothes were wound up in the 6' drill steel though the cause & nature of the accident & cause of death remain undetermined and under investigation.