Mining Incidents

Zachry Construction Corporation - (ZCC) contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: DB3
Safety record
2
Fatalities
48
Citations
5,675,467
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.
0.00
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

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

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

December 23, 1986 TX · Coal welder (shop) Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
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