CO. MIS-JUDGED AMOUNT OF MILKY LIME IN TANK. 12/8 THEY REMOVED TANK DOOR & HARD SCALE FORMED OVER DOOR. CO. CONTACTED ONYX TO CUT SCALE AT BASE TO REMOVE WHAT CO. SAID WAS 2-3 FT OF LIQUID. ONYX USED HIGH PRESSURE WATER TO CUT INTO SCALE. ONCE TECH STARTED, SCALE GAVE WAY & TECH WAS TRAPPED UNDER LIQUIDE THAT CAME OUT. MORE LIQUID WAS IN TANK THAN THOUGHT. CO DID NOT SOUND TANK.
China Minmetals; BPU AssociatesController
MSHA Controller ID: 0056149
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 164
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2004–2007
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Ricardo Cardona; Victor S Maldonado2fatal167 total
- OCI Company, Ltd.; Anadarko Petroleum Corp2fatal167 total
- Danny Justice1fatal164 total
- CraKol Energy LLC1fatal164 total
- China Minmetals; BPU Associatesthis controller1fatal164 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
Top causes
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 17 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS60 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON42 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)28 non-fatal
- OTHER4 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT3 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
30
2006
45
2005
63
2004
26 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedCaught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings