Our mixer driver was hauling for Freeport McMoRan at their Morenci mine location, the load was rejected and sent back, driver followed the escort down a hill with a full load, lost brakes and turned the mixer on its driver's side.
Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 2,872
- 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.
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.
- Jim Walter Resources Inc21fatal2,258 total
- Consolidation Coal Company17fatal3,150 total
- VULCAN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, LP11fatal2,443 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc.this operator4fatal2,872 total
- Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC3fatal2,081 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 167 non-fatal
- OTHER1 fatality · 53 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS289 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON215 non-fatal
- MACHINERY111 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)75 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedWeld crew initiated an argon purge on a 30"" pipe that had been fit up afternoon prior. When argon purge was established, two welders began to make their root pass welds. Upon inspection ""sugaring"" was observed. a welder entered the open end of the 30"" pipe for unknown reasons where they were found by a coworker to be unresponsive. No witnesses observed them enter the pipe.