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Lafarge S AController

MSHA Controller ID: M02063
Fatalities
4
Total incidents
1,865
Mines on record
101
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.

Fatality-count percentile
92th

More recorded fatalities than 92% of controllers on file.

Rank
#49of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
2.0×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
4
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

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 188 non-fatal
  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS338 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)133 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY121 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE59 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2015
17
2014
46
2013
36 (1f)
2012
64
2011
57 (1f)
2010
65
2009
61
2008
119
2007
139
2006
136
2005
148
2004
112

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

4 recorded
Lafarge West, Inc
Struck by falling object

While retrieving samples from quarry face, employee was struck on left shoulder by a rock, resulting in fractures.

Lafarge North America, Inc.
Fall from machine

Employee was changing screen material in a triple deck screen when he fell over the hand rail. He fell approximately 56 feet to the ground below.