new mexico mine act of 2006 - modified statute 2015 immediately reportable accidents
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New Mexico MINE ACT Of 2006 - Modified Statute
2015
Immediately Reportable Accidents
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Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries
• Mine operators are required to call The New Mexico Emergency Operations Center toll-free number at 1-866-761-6039 of an immediately reportable accident. These phone calls are required by NM State Statute.
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Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries
• Mine operators must call immediately, but no later than 30 minutes for the NMEOC from the time they know or should know that an accident has occurred
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Advice:If you are thinking if an
accident should be called or not called, make the call.
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2015 Major Changes 69-8-2 NMSA Definitions
State of NM Only!
The accident definitions have been spit into surface and underground
ACCIDENT
SURFACE UNDERGROUND
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UndergroundImmediately Reportable
Accidents and Injuries are: 1. A death of an individual at a mine; 2. An injury to an individual at a mine
which has a reasonable potential to cause death;
3. An entrapment of an individual for more than 30 minutes or which has a reasonable potential to cause death;
4. An unplanned inundation of a mine by a liquid or gas;
5. An unplanned ignition or explosion of gas or dust;
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UG Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries are:
6. In underground mines, an unplanned fire not extinguished within 10 minutes of discovery; in surface areas of underground mines, an unplanned fire not extinguished within 30 minutes of discovery;
7. An unplanned ignition or explosion of a blasting agent or an explosive;
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UG Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries are:
8. An unplanned roof fall at or above the anchorage zone in active workings where roof bolts are in use; or, an unplanned roof or rib fall in active workings that impairs ventilation or impedes passage;
9. A coal or rock outburst that causes withdrawal of miners or which disrupts regular mining activity for more than one hour;
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UG Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries are:
10. An unstable condition at an impoundment, refuse pile, or culm bank which requires emergency action in order to prevent failure, or which causes individuals to evacuate an area; or, failure of an impoundment, refuse pile, or culm bank;
11. Damage to hoisting equipment in a shaft or slope which endangers an individual or which interferes with use of the equipment for more than thirty minutes; and
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UG Immediately Reportable Accidents and Injuries are:
12.An event at a mine which causes death or bodily injury to an individual not at the mine at the time the event occurs.
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Surface Mine AccidentsAccident for a Surface Mine:
1 A death of an individual at a mine;
2. An injury that has a reasonable potential to cause death to an individual at a mine;
3. An entrapment of an individual for more than thirty minutes or that has a reasonable
potential to cause death;
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Surface Mine Accidents4. An unplanned inundation of a mine by a
liquid or gas;
5. An unplanned ignition or explosion of gas or dust;
6. An unplanned mine fire in an underground mine that is not extinguished within ten minutes of discovery and an unplanned mine fire within a surface mine or surface area of an underground mine that is not extinguished within thirty minutes;
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Surface Mine Accidents7. An unplanned ignition or explosion of a blasting agent or an explosive;
8. An unplanned roof fall at or above the anchorage zone in active workings where roof bolts are in use or an unplanned roof or rib fall in active workings that impairs ventilation or impedes passage;
9. A coal or rock outburst that causes withdrawal of miners or that disrupts regular mining activity for more than one hour;
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Surface Mine Accidents10. An unstable condition at an impoundment, refuse pile or culm bank that requires emergency action in order to prevent failure or that causes individuals to evacuate an area or failure of an impoundment, refuse pile or culm bank;
11. Damage to hoisting equipment in a shaft or slope that endangers an individual or that interferes with use of the equipment for more than thirty minutes;
12. An event at a mine that causes death or bodily injury to an individual not at the mine at the time the event occurs;
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Advice:If you are thinking if an
accident should be called or not called, make the call.