Hecla Mining Co. says a miner who died in a tunnel collapse at the Lucky Friday Mine in northern Idaho is partly responsible for his own death due to his own negligent and careless misconduct. The company in court documents …
The operator of a 71-year-old northern Idaho silver mine that was beset by fatal and injury accidents two years ago has been hit by another lawsuit, this time filed by four miners who say managers dispatched them deep underground into …
The family of a miner who died in a, Idaho tunnel collapse two years ago has sued Hecla Mining Co. 53-year-old Larry “Pete” Marek was crushed to death in a cave-in more than a mile inside the Lucky Friday Mine …