Explosives Contractors Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: 6EJ

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 51
Citations: 634,619
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.: 1.58
Fatalities / million hrs

80.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2022

1 (1f)

Mines worked

3 M Little Rock Industrial Mineral Prod AR

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

June 20, 2022 AR · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

3M Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Time of accident: 10:00-11:30 Employee was drilling approximately 5' from the highwall. Drill steel was out of the carousel (cause under investigation). They exited the drill to correct the situation and failed to put on fall protection as per company policy and training requirements. It appears that they tripped/slipped/stumbled and fell over the edge. This resulted in a fatality.