Mining Incidents

Jacobs Field Services contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: 1PL
Safety record
1
Fatalities
289
Citations
18,727,970
Employee-hours (2000+)
Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
0.05
Fatalities / million hrs
15.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 61 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 22 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 20 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 16 non-fatal
  • OTHER 7 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2015
1
2014
12
2013
34
2012
9
2011
7
2010
7
2009
1
2008
7
2007
24 (1f)
2006
11
2005
3
2004
1
2002
5
2001
2
1999
9
1998
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
September 14, 2007 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc · Contact with electrical current

An electrician that was trouble shooting an installation was electrocuted by a single leg of a 3 phase 4160 volt service.