Mining Incidents

MOR-PPM Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: ERH
Safety record
1
Fatalities
2
Citations
229,484
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.
4.36
Fatalities / million hrs
8.7 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

Incident timeline

2001
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
December 4, 2001 NC · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
3M Company · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE TOOK A "SHORT CUT". EMPLOYEE NEVER USED HIS FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT WHILE TAKING HIS "SHORT CUT", THE RESULT WAS THIS EMPLOYEE FALLING OFF A BEAM. THE EE FELL TO HIS DEATH 46' BELOW . EMPLOYEE HAD ALL HIS FALL PROTECTION EQUIPMENTSECURED TO HIS HARNESS AND NEVER ATTEMPTED TO SECURE THEM TO PREVENT THE FALL.