Rocky Mountain Steel Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: 7WU

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 26
Citations: 110,219
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.: 9.07
Fatalities / million hrs

235.9 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
MACHINERY 3 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013

2012

2011

1 (1f)

2003

1999

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

June 9, 2011 CO · Coal miner, prospector, nec Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. · Fall onto or against objects

Working on a structure 15' high & was safely tied off to structure, when he completed his work, instead of stepping onto platform from beam he was standing on while tied off - he untied and then stepped and fell 8' onto another 5 1/4" beam with his chest. He walked to the company truck and sat down ambulance arrived, got in and died in route to the hospital.