Mining Incidents

Freeport-McMoRan IncController

MSHA Controller ID: 0067299
Fatalities
11
Total incidents
5,143
Mines on record
19
Years on record
2007–2026

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.

Fatality-count percentile
97th

More recorded fatalities than 97% of controllers on file.

Rank
#14of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
5.4×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
11
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS313 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON214 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE146 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY101 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)83 non-fatal
  • OTHER49 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
68
2025
270
2024
311
2023
351

Operators under this controller

Mines on record