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Shimmick contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: D50
Safety record
1
Fatalities
77
Citations
3,871,828
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.
0.26
Fatalities / million hrs
19.9 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 · 40 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 39 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 29 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 17 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 14 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 7 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2012
4
2011
1
2010
1
2009
3
2008
14
2007
7 (1f)
2006
12
2005
8
2004
5
2003
2
2002
1
2001
7
2000
16
1999
7
1989
7
1988
19
1987
35
1986
7
1985
4

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
October 11, 2007 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal water truck operator Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
BHP Copper Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was found on the ground in front of a Cat 777D water truck. It appears that the employee fell to the ground from the equipment. There were no witnesses to the event. Autopsy report is pending.