---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-030602"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HL"
cik: "0000719413"
company_name: "HECLA MINING CO/DE/"
filed_at: "2024-10-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T21:53:29.983870+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hecla Mining Greens Creek mine receives imminent danger order for fall protection violation

## Summary
- Verbal order issued July 5, 2024 under section 107(a) of Mine Safety Act.
- Order cited miner standing atop haul truck without fall protection.
- Order vacated same day after miner descended from truck.
- Incident occurred at Greens Creek mine near Juneau, Alaska.
- No injuries; mine safety regulatory event with no financial impact disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-030602
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HL
- cik: 0000719413
- company_name: HECLA MINING CO/DE/
- filed_at: 2024-10-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.04, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774924030602/0001437749-24-030602-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719413/000143774924030602/hl20241003_8k.htm

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