A loader bucket on a CAT R3000H came down and crushed an employee while in use, resulting in a fatality. The injured employee was operating a UTV (gator) in Unit 43 near the feeder breaker (Stamler) when the incident occurred. This incident is still under investigation.
Cargill SaltOperator
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 637
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 94% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Freeport-McMoRan Chino Mines Company4fatal664 total
- Cargill Saltthis operator4fatal637 total
- Peabody Powder River Mining LLC3fatal645 total
- Blue Diamond Coal Company2fatal620 total
- Dolese Brothers Company1fatal624 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 fatalities · 9 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 27 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HOISTING372 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS69 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)36 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedRoof fell at the 700' level at intersection H-13 striking two miners. The miners were fatally injured.
Roof fell at the 700' level at intersection H-13 striking two miners. The miners were fatally injured.
Employee was in dump truck waiting to be loaded with bulk salt from under 150 ton bin to transfer it to the stockpile pad on Cargill Deicing property. He was being loaded with salt when the brackets from the bin gave way and landed on the cab of his truck pinning him inside.