Mining Incidents

Irondale Industrial Contractors, Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: 7NM
Safety record
1
Fatalities
145
Citations
4,018,129
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.
0.25
Fatalities / million hrs
36.1 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 14 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 13 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 7 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
3
2025
3
2022
1
2021
2
2017
1
2016
4
2015
3
2014
1
2013
1
2012
1
2011
5
2010
1
2009
1
2008
2
2007
5 (1f)
2006
7
2004
4
2003
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
June 13, 2007 MO · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) Fatality · MACHINERY
MLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE and other co-workers were trying to connect a 42-in. inlet duct to a top reversal box through an opening in the building. The EE was inside the building between the inlet duct and reversal box. When the inlet duct unexpectedly came through the opening, it struck the injured employee in the head causing severe head injury resulting in death on 6/19/2007.