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.
Freeport-McMoRan Safford IncOperator
- 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.
More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Oak Grove Resources LLC3fatal481 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Safford Incthis operator2fatal472 total
- FMC Corp1fatal468 total
- U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLC1fatal467 total
- Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC1fatal465 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
- 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedAn electrician that was trouble shooting an installation was electrocuted by a single leg of a 3 phase 4160 volt service.