Arc flash event involving electrical equipment that resulted in burns to the employee's arms and torso as well as electrical equipment damage. The employee was injured and hospitalized after the incident but, passed away in the hospital on 08/22/2024.
Buzzi Unicem USAOperator
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 868
- Mines on record
- 5
- 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.
- Buzzi Unicem USAthis operator4fatal868 total
- Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC.2fatal875 total
- Sunrise Coal, LLC.2fatal839 total
- Mosaic Phosphates Company2fatal905 total
- Ohio Valley Coal Resources, Inc.1fatal910 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 PERSON2 fatalities · 158 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 91 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 14 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS326 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)100 non-fatal
- OTHER41 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedA delivery truck driver for Stericycle Environmental Solutions arrived at Alternate Fuels to deliver drums. After opening trailer doors, the driver walked back to the cab of his truck and proceeded to climb the steps to get back in the cab when he suddenly fell backwards onto the ground striking the back of his head.
The Employee was on the surface of a clean dry barge in daylight hours with no movement and light wind. The Ee passed through the #2 port hatch opening and made contact with the empty hopper floor. Cause is unknown. Ee was installing a dust prevention tarp across the port hatch opening before the incident. The operator contests MSHA jurisdiction.
THE SPECIFIC CAUSE OF THIS ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE BUCKET ELEVATOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY FAILED AND THE VICTIM WAS STRUCK BY FRAGMENTS FROM THAT SYSTEM.