Mining Incidents

Unnamed contractor contractor

MSHA contractor ID: 2VP
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, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
n/a
Fatalities / million hrs
The recorded deaths predate MSHA's contractor employee-hours data, which begins in 2000, so no rate can be computed.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1999
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
July 1, 1999 NV · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Royal Cement Company Inc · Contact with electrical current

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS CHECKING THE TRANSFORMER LOCATED AT LC2 TO SEE IF NEWLY PURCHASED TRANSFORMER COULD BE RETROFITTED. IT APPEARS THE VICTIM WAS ELECTROCUTED WHEN COMING INTO CONTACT WITH 4160/480 VAC, THE HANDLE TO THE SQUARE D 4160 VAC DISCONNECT THAT PROVIDES POWER TO THE TRANSFORMER HAD BEEN LOCKED OUT IN THE OFF POSITION. THE SHIELD BLADES WE