Mining Incidents

Freeport-McMoRan Safford IncOperator

Controlled by Freeport-McMoRan Inc
MSHA Operator ID: 0073264
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
472
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2006–2026

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.

Fatality-count percentile
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#140of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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.

For counsel + compliance teams

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Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL2 fatalities · 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS153 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON79 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE58 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY53 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)50 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
8
2025
34
2024
29
2023
41
2022
30
2021
34
2020
28
2019
31
2018
29
2017
16
2016
27 (1f)
2015
9
2014
8
2013
22
2012
27
2011
13
2010
14
2009
19
2008
26
2007
25 (1f)
2006
2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Contact with electrical current

Employee went to prime the diaphragm pump located outside the stripping machine building, adjacent to the hydraulic room. Eight minutes pass where EE is unaccounted for prior to being found unresponsive, kneeling in liquid, face against the stainless steel flange of the tank house return HDPE line.

Contact with electrical current

An electrician that was trouble shooting an installation was electrocuted by a single leg of a 3 phase 4160 volt service.