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Heidelberg Materials AGController

MSHA Controller ID: M00004
Fatalities
10
Total incidents
3,415
Mines on record
201
Years on record
2000–2026

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
#17of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
4.9×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
10
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

  • POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 58 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 210 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS331 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)160 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY83 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
33
2025
91 (1f)
2024
84
2023
71
2022
94
2021
103
2020
83 (1f)
2019
108
2018
103
2017
156 (1f)
2016
74 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

10 recorded
Heidelberg Materials Northeast LLC
Struck by falling object

The EE was loading lifters when a piece of rock (approx. 4'x 5' x 2') fell from the ceiling and struck the EE. The EE was not pinned under the rock. This resulted in a fatal accident.

Lehigh Southwest Cement
Fall from machine

Contractor truck driver was found lying on the ground on the drivers side of cement haul truck at the east truck access platform outbound lane by Golden Star trucking trainer and trainee at ~ 1:30-1:45 pm.

Lehigh Southwest Cement Co.
Contact with hot objects or substances

A fatal accident occurred on December 30, 2017. The employee was driving a Dodge pick-up in a stockpile area and pulled in behind a Caterpillar 992G loader. As the loader reversed, it struck the pick-up which then caught fire. The resulting injuries were fatal.

Heidelberg Materials Southeast Agg LLC
Struck against a moving object

Employee was fatally injured when the haul truck employee was operating drove off the haul road and fell into the quarry pit below