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Hydroblasing nozzle exited pipe striking employee.
Sherwin Alumina Company, LLCOperator
Controlled by Sherwin Alumina LLC
MSHA Operator ID: L18185
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 743
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2001–2016
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 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
3
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Martin Marietta Aggregates-Southwest Division3fatal744 total
- Big Ridge, Inc.3fatal738 total
- Alcoa World Alumina LLC3fatal735 total
- Sherwin Alumina Company, LLCthis operator3fatal743 total
- Highland Mining Company LLC2fatal750 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
- MACHINERY3 fatalities · 76 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS245 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON171 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)136 non-fatal
- OTHER24 non-fatal
- STRIKING OR BUMPING13 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2016
8
2015
36
2014
78
2013
51
2012
83
2011
43
2010
37
2009
42 (1f)
2008
59
2007
44
2006
45
2005
63
2004
39 (1f)
2003
28
2002
35 (1f)
2001
52
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedCaught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
CO. MIS-JUDGED AMOUNT OF MILKY LIME IN TANK. 12/8 THEY REMOVED TANK DOOR & HARD SCALE FORMED OVER DOOR. CO. CONTACTED ONYX TO CUT SCALE AT BASE TO REMOVE WHAT CO. SAID WAS 2-3 FT OF LIQUID. ONYX USED HIGH PRESSURE WATER TO CUT INTO SCALE. ONCE TECH STARTED, SCALE GAVE WAY & TECH WAS TRAPPED UNDER LIQUIDE THAT CAME OUT. MORE LIQUID WAS IN TANK THAN THOUGHT. CO DID NOT SOUND TANK.
Struck by falling object
AT 12 O'CLOCK MIDNIGHT AN EQUIPMENT CLEANER HELPER WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS BY A CO-WORKER. THE ECH WAS GIVEN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE BY EMERGENCY PERSONNEL AND TRANSPORTED TO A HOSPITAL IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCE DEAD ON ARRIVAL. THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS DETERMINED TO BE A FRACTURED NECK. INVESTIGATION IS ON-GOING.