Thompson Tractor Company, Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: DL2

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 54
Citations: 1,927,055
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.: 0.52
Fatalities / million hrs

28.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 4 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 4 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal
STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 1, 2008 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · MACHINERY

Reed Minerals Inc · Struck by flying object

The victim (mechanic) removed fuel injector from engine and then instructed his helper to turn the engine over. Diesel fuel and/or air came out of the 1/4 inch injector hole and struck him in the left eye and entered his brain, causing fatal injury.