A contractor was servicing the Alimak elevator at the fourth level of the pre-heater tower. The contractor was on top of the elevator and a mine employee was inside the elevator assisting. The person inside the elevator heard a clicking sound and the elevator started a downward descent. The contractor on top of the elevator received crushing injuries when the elevator moved.
Amrize Cement Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 9
- Total incidents
- 1,450
- Mines on record
- 22
- Years on record
- 2001–2026
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 99% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Martin Marietta Materials,Inc.10fatal1,384 total
- Holcim US Incthis operator9fatal1,450 total
- Marfork Coal Company, LLC7fatal1,500 total
- Ash Grove Cement Company4fatal1,434 total
- Drummond Company, Inc.3fatal1,402 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators 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.
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Top causes
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 173 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 36 non-fatal
- HOISTING1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS355 non-fatal
- MACHINERY130 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)125 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Amrize Theodore PlantAL
- Amrize Portland PlantCO
- Amrize Crystal River QuarryFL
- Amrize Cave In Rock QuarryIL
- Amrize Joppa PlantIL
- Mason City Plant & QuarryIA
- Amrize Hagerstown FacilityMD
- DUNDEE PLANTMI
- Amrize Alpena PlantMI
- Holcim Artesia PlantMS
- CLARKSVILLE PLANTMO
- Amrize Ste Genevieve PlantMO
- Trident Plant & QuarryMT
- AMRIZE RAVENA PLANTNY
- Holcim (US) IncNY
- Amrize Paulding PlantOH
- Holcim (US) Inc-Ada PlantOK
- Amrize Whitehall PlantPA
- Amrize Holly Hill PlantSC
- Amrize Midlothian PlantTX
- Amrize Devil's Slide PlantUT
Fatalities under this operator
9 recordedWhile operating a skid steer loader in reverse, it overturned in body of water.
Employee fell approximately 100 feet while dismantling a suspended Safway Systems scaffold. The accident is still under investigation.