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About Fedele Coppo
Accident 17. - January 10. - Fidele Coppo, was employed to oil the rollers that carry the wire rope in No. 3 shaft, Hecla branch of the Calumet and Hecla mine.
He was caught by the descending skip and killed between the 14th and 15th levels. His left leg was cut off and both arms were broken. Captain Thomas Wills and a party of timbermen were going down the shaft about 40 feet above Coppo. The timbermen heard the skip coming down, and seeing Coppo below them, called to him to get out of the hoisting shaft and go in the ladderway, and supposed he had done so, until they found his hat with the lamp still burning in the ladderway. It is supposed he was caught by the descending skip.
An inquest was held before Justice Sowden.
The jury rendered a verdict: “That the said Fidele Coppo came to his death by being struck by a descending skip in No. 3 shaft at the Hecla mine, about the 15th level. We consider the accident purely accidental.”
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Fedele Coppo's Timeline
| 1830 |
1830
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Torino, Piemonte, Italy
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| 1860 |
February 18, 1860
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Pont Canavese, Pont-Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
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| 1861 |
September 6, 1861
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Pont Canavese, Pont-Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
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| 1868 |
1868
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Italy
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| 1894 |
January 10, 1894
Age 64
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The Calumet & Hecla Mine, between the 14th and 15th levels.. No. 3 shaft, Hecla branch, Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States
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