Drowning
While operating a skid steer loader in reverse, it overturned in body of water.
Holcim LtdController
MSHA Controller ID: M01644
- Fatalities
- 9
- Total incidents
- 1,373
- Mines on record
- 50
- Years on record
- 2000–2015
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 97% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
9
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Holcim Ltdthis controller9fatal1,373 total
- Rag Aktiengesellschaft6fatal1,416 total
- Stillwater Mining Company6fatal1,428 total
- Drummond Company Inc3fatal1,402 total
- James H Booth2fatal1,342 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
- POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 39 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 fatalities · 157 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 143 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS370 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)122 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2015
30
2014
33
2013
40
2012
47 (1f)
2011
52
2010
55
2009
97 (1f)
2008
101
2007
70
2006
77
2005
86 (2f)
2004
80 (2f)
2003
119 (1f)
2002
113
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Amrize Theodore PlantAL
- Amrize Portland PlantCO
- FT COLLINS PLANTCO
- Amrize Morrison QuarryCO
- THORNTON PLANTCO
- Brighton PlantCO
- Amrize Platte Valley PlantCO
- Amrize Crystal River QuarryFL
- Mason City Plant & QuarryIA
- Amrize Hagerstown FacilityMD
- Amrize Rockville QuarryMD
- LaPlata Sand & GravelMD
- Amrize Swampscott QuarryMA
- Amrize Wrentham QuarryMA
- SUTTON PIT & MILLMA
- Amrize Littleton QuarryMA
- Amrize Taunton QuarryMA
- DUNDEE PLANTMI
- Amrize Kalamazoo West PlantMI
- ALLIS-CHALMERS PLANT #3MI
- Amrize Wayland PlantMI
- Amrize Larson PlantMN
- Amrize Nelson PlantMN
- Amrize Lakeland PlantMN
- Amrize Pit #52MN
- Amrize Empire PlantMN
- Amrize Cedar Rapids Jaw Crusher P-117MN
- Amrize HP 300 PlantMN
- Holcim Artesia PlantMS
- CLARKSVILLE PLANTMO
- Amrize Ste Genevieve PlantMO
- Trident Plant & QuarryMT
- Amrize Sloan Quarry #1001NV
- Amrize Raymond QuarryNH
- Holcim (US) IncNY
- Holcim (US) Inc-Ada PlantOK
- Amrize Stringtown QuarryOK
- Amrize Thackerville Sand PlantOK
- Amrize Holly Hill PlantSC
- Amrize Ambrose Sand PlantTX
- Cleburne Sand PlantTX
- Amrize Rosser Sand PlantTX
- Mico QuarryTX
- Amrize Devil's Slide PlantUT
- Amrize Rappahannock MineVA
- Amrize Mattaponi PlantVA
- Ashland PlantVA
- Fulks PlantVA
- Amrize Hickory HillVA
- Amrize Millville QuarryWV
Fatalities under this controller
9 recordedFall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
Employee fell approximately 100 feet while dismantling a suspended Safway Systems scaffold. The accident is still under investigation.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
The employee was moving manlift to the ground and became trapped between the I beam and the control panel. Condition of the controls in the basket is suspect.
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Employee became entangled between a return idler and the bottom conveyor tail pulley located in the primary crusher basement.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Causes Unknown - Still under investigation. The victim was helping switch rail cars from a siding when he was struck & run over by the moving cars.
Contact with hot objects or substances
EE WAS WORKING WITH A CREW UNDERNEATH THE TABLE OF THE RAW MILL. HE LEFT THE WORK AREA AND HAD TRAVELED APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET DOWN AN ADJACENT DUCT WHEN HE FELL INTO A PILE OF FLY ASH INSIDE THE DUCT.