WITNESSES ALLEGE THAT THE EMPLOYEE WAS PREPARING AN AREA FOR THE TEMPORARY STORAGE OF STEEL BEAMS WHICH WERE BEING OFF-LOADED FROM A FLATBED TRUCK. WHILE THOSE BEAMS WERE SUSPENDED OVERHEAD BY NYLON SLINGS, THEY TILTED, SLID THROUGH THE SLINGS AND FELL, IMPACTING THE EMPLOYEE IN THE HEAD (FACE AREA). THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRANSFERRED BY AMBULANCE TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOU
Zachry Construction Corporation - (ZCC) contractor
Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: DB3
Safety record
- 2
- Fatalities
- 48
- Citations
- 5,675,467
- Employee-hours (2000+)
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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. - 0.00
- Fatalities / million hrs
8.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.
Top causes
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 34 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 56 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 38 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 22 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 6 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2008
2
2006
1
2005
2
2004
2
2003
5
2002
6
2001
50
2000
29
1999
11
1998
3
1997
3
1996
9
1995
2
1994
3
1993
2
1991
2
1990
6 (1f)
1989
5
1988
2
1987
21
1986
1 (1f)
1984
2
1983
4
Mines worked
- Clarkdale Facility AZ
- The Chemours Company FC LLC FL
- PENNSUCO CEMENT PLANT FL
- Capitol Cement Plant & Quarry TX
- CHANUTE QUARRY KS
- SAN ANTONIO PUGMILL TX
- Sandow Mine TX
- Martinsburg WV
- Beckville Strip TX
- Cantera Espinosa PR
- Sherwin Alumina, L.P. TX
- Winfield North Strip TX
- Forest Grove Strip TX
- Jewett Mine TX
Recorded fatalities
2 recorded
September 20, 1990
PR · Metal/Non-Metal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
Fatality · MACHINERY
San Juan Cement Company Inc · Struck by falling object
Luminant Mining Company LLC · Struck by falling object
WORK WAS UNDER 4AY TO REPAIR A SPREADER BAR THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM A DRAGLINE BUCKET THE BAR CONSISTING OF A TWO 8 INCH DIAMETER SCHEDULE 80 PIPES AND STEEL BLOCK AT EACH END WAS ABOUT 3 30-35 FT LONG I7 HAD DEFORMED IN THE SHAPE OF A 1 SUCH THAT THE BLOCKS WERE NOW 15 FT APART BAR WAS BEING HELD UPRIGHT BY A FORKLIFT A WELDER HAD CUT ONE OF THE , IN PIPES NEAR ONE OF THE BLO