FIRE

Name: FIRE at O-N Minerals (Michigan) Company
Start: 04/15/2016

220161090051 · 04/15/2016 · O-N Minerals (Michigan) Company

Details

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

Operator

Controller (parent): Carmeuse Holding SA
Operator: O-N Minerals (Michigan) Company
Mine: 2000985

Narrative

Embers from the exhaust of the locomotive used to transport material from the quarry to the mill ignited a grassy area and spread to cover ~5 acres of wetlands at the mine site.

Source

Authoritative: MSHA Open Government Data
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown