Adams Trucking Co Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: 6MH

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 47
Citations: 166,826
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.: 5.99
Fatalities / million hrs

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

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

Top causes

ELECTRICAL 1 fatality
POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2022

2006

1 (1f)

2001

Mines worked

ADAMS MA

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

July 27, 2006 MA · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · ELECTRICAL

Specialty Minerals Inc · Contact with electrical current

Employee of Adams Trucking was weedwacking brush. Blade on weedwacker hit guide wire for electrical pole. The wire was severed and the tension pulled it back toward the transformers on the pole. the guide wire came in contact with a bare wire. At this time we assume electricity went to ground causing fatality. Under Investigation.