Mining Incidents

MURRAY'S CONTRACTING CO: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: 1QA
Safety record
1
Fatalities
0
Citations
0
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.
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Fatalities / million hrs
No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1999
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
January 27, 1999 PA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Keystone Cement Company · Struck by falling object

IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING THE SILO, CONTRACTOR'S SUPERVISOR ENTERED THE SILO. A LEDGE OF HARDENED CEMENT ON WHICH HE WAS STANDING GAVE WAY CAUSING HIM TO FALL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SILO. A RES ULTING AVALANCHE OF CEMENT CASCADED DOWN UPON HIM AND BURIED HIM.