Plywood was covering the manhole inside the kiln. The EE pushed the plywoood forward and walked through the manhole, falling approximately 20'. (The victim died August 21, 2006 as a result of his injuries.)
Mitsubishi Cement CorpOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 210
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- GCC Rio Grande, Inc.1fatal209 total
- Rockspring Development Inc1fatal207 total
- Irving Materials, Inc.1fatal206 total
- Heidelberg Materials Northeast-LLC1fatal205 total
- Mitsubishi Cement Corpthis operator1fatal210 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 · 41 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS78 non-fatal
- MACHINERY25 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)18 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE13 non-fatal
- DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)5 non-fatal