Mining Incidents

Madisonville Mining, LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: B5045
Safety record
1
Fatalities
6
Citations
469,505
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.
2.13
Fatalities / million hrs
12.8 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2021
1 (1f)
2018
3
2017
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
May 18, 2021 TN · Metal/Non-Metal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Nyrstar Tennessee Mines, Strawberry Plains LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A group solely comprised of RWS contractors [MSHA Contractor ID B5045] was working in the mine. A pump sitting on a trailer was moved by RWS contractors by a telehandler, without notification to Nyrstar. RWS hitched the trailer to their telehandler. RWS pulled the trailer up a ramp. The trailer hitch broke. An individual RWS EE traveling on foot behind the trailer was struck