Arc flash event involving electrical equipment that resulted in burns to the employee's arms and torso as well as electrical equipment damage. The employee was injured and hospitalized after the incident but, passed away in the hospital on 08/22/2024.
Buzzi S p AController
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 1,967
- Mines on record
- 17
- 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.
More recorded fatalities than 92% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
- Newmont Corporation10fatal2,157 total
- J Clifford Forrest III6fatal1,742 total
- Lafarge S A4fatal1,865 total
- Buzzi S p Athis controller4fatal1,967 total
- ACNR Holdings, Inc3fatal2,096 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 fatalities · 198 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 14 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS378 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)120 non-fatal
- MACHINERY105 non-fatal
- OTHER39 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Lone Star IndustriesIN
- Lone Star Quarry & MillMO
- Selma Plant Quarry & MillMO
- LONE STAR PRYOR PLT MILL & QYOK
- Hercules Cement LPPA
- Bennett's Lake QuarryTN
- Signal Mountain Cement CoTN
- Barrett Base PltTX
- MARYNEAL QUARRY AND MILLTX
- Alamo Con Prod Eagle Pass S & GTX
- WEIR PLANTTX
- 1604 QUARRY & PLANTTX
- SOUTH-TEX QUARRYTX
- VARMICON QUARRYTX
- Bastrop PlantTX
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedA contract employee was conducting maintenance duties at the number 6 cement cooler when the employee fell approximately 25 feet onto a concrete floor.
A delivery truck driver for Stericycle Environmental Solutions arrived at Alternate Fuels to deliver drums. After opening trailer doors, the driver walked back to the cab of his truck and proceeded to climb the steps to get back in the cab when he suddenly fell backwards onto the ground striking the back of his head.