Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee in flatbed service truck was parked on a waste dump at the Mission Mine. A 320 ton haul truck ran over flatbed service truck resulting in fatal accident.
Asarco LLCOperator
Controlled by Grupo Mexico S A B de C V
MSHA Operator ID: L17191
- Fatalities
- 7
- Total incidents
- 1,685
- Mines on record
- 12
- 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 98% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
7
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Stillwater Mining Company10fatal1,854 total
- Marfork Coal Company, LLC7fatal1,500 total
- ASARCO LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Companythis operator7fatal1,685 total
- Rosebud Mining Company6fatal1,738 total
- Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company LLC1fatal1,820 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 HAULAGE3 fatalities · 54 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS293 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON259 non-fatal
- MACHINERY109 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)103 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
6
2025
30
2024
33
2023
27
2022
37
2021
22
2020
31
2019
51
2018
43
2017
24 (1f)
2016
41
2015
31
2014
45
2013
62
2012
58
2011
100
2010
103 (1f)
2009
97 (1f)
2008
127 (1f)
2007
32
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
7 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
The investigation is not complete, but as of now it appears a haul truck struck a pick-up truck. The cause of the accident is unknown at this time.
Struck against stationary object
The investigation is not complete, but as of now it appears that the haul truck he was driving made contact with the safety berm and tipped on its side. The caue of the accident is unknown at this time.
Contact with electrical current
Employee (electrician apprentice) and a co-worker (journeyman electrician) were working on a light fixture of the SX upper tailings booster when he came in contact with energized wire.