Mining Incidents

F. T. Silfies contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: E714
Safety record
1
Fatalities
7
Citations
1,554,691
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.
0.64
Fatalities / million hrs
4.5 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 · 1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
1 (1f)
2013
1
2010
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
October 10, 2014 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Heidelberg Materials US Cement LLC · Fall from machine

Fall from Platform at Lehigh Cement Facility. On 10/10/14 a truck driver/loader employed by FT Silfies Inc. was in the process of pre-loading a trailer on miner property. At Aprox. 11:18AM, the driver was standing in side the safety loading rack on top of a trailer when he fell between the lower railing of the rack and the trailer, aprox ten (10) feet to the ground.