Among the award-winners in the 1999 Sentinels of Safety competiton are two lead mines operated by privately owned The Doe Run Co., based in St. Louis, Mo.
Both the Buick mine, near Boston, Mass., and the Fletcher mine, near Viburnum, Mo., won in the underground metals competition.
Other winners in same category are Pasminco Zinc’s Cumberland mine, in Tennessee, and Newmont Mining’s Rain gold mine, in Nevada’s Carlin trend.
The awards were announced by the Washington, D.C.-based National Mining Association and the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The awards recognize operations that worked the most employee hours without suffering a lost-time injury. To be in the running, a company must have completed at least 30,000 employee hours without a fatality or lost-time injury.
The winners were honoured at a luncheon in conjunction with MINExpo International 2000 in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct., 9.
Other winners include the following:
– Surface coal category — The Samples mine in Eskdale, W.Va., operated by Cantenary Coal; the Big Brown Strip mine in Fairfield, Tex., operated by TXU Mining; the Kemmerer mine in Kemmerer, Wyo., operated by Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining; the Muskingum mine in Cumberland, Ohio, operated by Central Ohio Coal.
– Open-pit category — The DuPont Florida heavy-minerals mine in Starke, Fla., operated by E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.; the Swift Creek phosphate mine in White Sprints, Fla., operated by PCS Phosphate; the Denton-Rawhide gold-silver mine in Fallon, Nev., operated by Kennecott-Rawhide Mining; and the Wharf gold mine in Lead, S.D., operated by Wharf Resources.
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