Millers' Blasting Service Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: EC0

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 17
Citations: 236,572
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

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

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

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1997

1 (1f)

Mines worked

LIMEKILN QUARRY IL

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

September 3, 1997 IL · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY

Martin & Company Excavating · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IT APPEARS WHILE DRILLING THE FRONT HOLES ON THE HIGHWALL (APPROX. 92') THE CHAIN THAT LIFTS THE DRILLHAMMER BROKE, WHEN THE THE HAMMER WAS NEAR THE TOP OF THE MAST ALLOWING IT TO FALL. THE HA MMER APPRENTLY STRUCK THE DRILLER WHO WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT AND PUSHED HIM OFF THE WALL. THERE WAS A SAFETY HARNESS ON THE MACHINE BUT DRILLER DID NOT HAVE IT ON AT TIME OF ACCIDENT.