Tag: patrick weier
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Mollie Kathleen inspections had been ‘satisfactory’
A news release from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety announced that prior safety inspections of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine raised no concerns before the Oct. 10 fatal accident. Patrick Weier, 46, a resident of Victor and a tour guide at the mine, died as a result of an elevator malfunction, according…
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Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine ordered closed after fatal accident; inspections had been ‘satisfactory’
A news release from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety announced Thursday that prior safety inspections of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine raised no concerns before the fatal accident last week. According to previous Gazette reporting, on Oct. 10 one person died and several people became stuck at the bottom of the Mollie Kathleen…
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Hundreds turn out to honor Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine worker: ‘We’re never going to forget him’
On a cool, sunny Thursday morning, Cripple Creek was transformed as local resident Patrick Weier was memorialized. Weier died a week earlier in an equipment malfunction at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine. Twenty-three visitors were eventually rescued from the tourist mine on the edge of town. Weier was not. Usually vibrant, Cripple Creek’s main drag,…
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Cripple Creek mine elevator had a bad, but not deadly, summer in the 1990s
Mine tour guide Patrick Weier, a 46-year-old father from Victor, was the sole fatality in a deadly elevator accident that also stranded a dozen people deep inside Cripple Creek’s Mollie Kathleen Mine for several hours Thursday afternoon. Weier was among about a dozen people inside the tourist mine’s rapidly-moving “cage” style elevator car when the…
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Mollie Kathleen Mine made headlines in 1994, when elevator system failed twice in 5 weeks
No one was injured in the 1994 Cripple Creek mine incidents.