Mining Incidents

MOR-PPM Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: G908
Safety record
1
Fatalities
91
Citations
2,438,011
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.
0.41
Fatalities / million hrs
37.3 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 · 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 5 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
1
2018
7
2014
3
2013
2
2011
1
2010
1 (1f)
2004
1
2003
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
June 12, 2010 MN · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Unimin Minnesota Corporation · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Incident is still under investigation. Cause of death is unknown, awaiting autopsy report. The victim was working from an elevated location that was provided with handrails. He was using an 8 foot stepladder. While preparing to weld on an overhead vent pipe, he fell going over the handrail and landed on a railroad track 47 feet below.