Mining Incidents

National Cement Company Of California IncOperator

Controlled by Vicat S A
MSHA Operator ID: L10040
Fatalities
4
Total incidents
224
Mines on record
1
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.

Fatality-count percentile
94th

More recorded fatalities than 94% of operators on file.

Rank
#32of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
2.5×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
4
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.

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Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 fatalities · 53 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 23 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS62 non-fatal
  • OTHER17 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)17 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE14 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
4 (1f)
2025
7
2024
8
2023
9
2021
2
2020
4
2019
4
2018
5
2017
2
2016
9
2015
7
2014
7
2013
3 (1f)
2012
6
2011
3
2010
6
2009
6
2008
13
2007
27
2006
13
2005
17
2004
16
2003
17 (1f)
2002
11
2001
8
2000
10 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

4 recorded
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

During preparation for dismantling of motor and gear box on slide gate. Employee didn't follow given instructions and removed all bolts from gearbox. That cause released of stored energy on slide gate and motor with gear box start spinning. Employee got caught by the equipment and started spinning with it. During spinning their head hit the handrail which caused a fatal injury.

Fall from ladders

The miner was in progress of storing electrical cable into a cable tray. The south bracket some how came loose. When the south side of the cable tray came down it struck the ladder on the east side causing the ladder to fall towards the west. The miner tried to compensate for the fall by leaning to the west. He then fell from the ladder hitting the ground.

Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS LEANING ON CHAIN GUARDING OPENING TALKING TO ANOTHER EE. EE FELL APPROX 9 FEET STRAIGHT HEAD ON CONCRETE PAVEMENT BELOW.

Struck by falling object

THE CREW WAS PUTTING BURNER PIPE IN PLACE AND BURNER PIPE FELL 8 FEET STRIKING EMPLOYEE.