Bruce Grange

Background

About Bruce Grange

I was raise on a large cattle ranch and learned to be handy and open to new ideas. When I was a junior in high school I helped out with the local ambulance and fire services and went to work at a tunnel project in 1976. After graduating from high school I chased the mining industry to Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Colorado and ended up back home in Colorado with my future wife in 1981. Married and started a family, still chasing the mining industry and settled in Elko Nevada where I live today. After working 27 years in the underground mining industry I was offered a job with Eklund Drilling and eventually that private owner sold out to Boart Longyear. I entered the safety side of the business in 1992 when a close friend was killed underground after we had been asking management for different supplies and did not get them. A totally preventable incident that could have been prevented but at the time it was an acceptable risk for the underground industry. Throughout the years I have worked in: tunnels, underground power plants, coal, uranium, gold, silver, cosmetics minerals and shafts & raises. I have been: an EMT, Underground Mine rescue member and instructor, Surface mine rescue team member and instructor, a member and trainer on various fire and ambulance services, a high angle rope rescue member and instructor, Radiation Safety officer, mechanic, welder and equipment operator.