Mining Incidents

G Edgar Harr Sons Corp contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: H4C
Safety record
1
Fatalities
25
Citations
103,110
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.
9.70
Fatalities / million hrs
242.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2002
1 (1f)
1995
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
September 10, 2002 MD · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper Fatality · MACHINERY
Lafarge Mid-Atlantic, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

DRILLER WAS IN DRILL CAB PREPARING TO DRILL AN 18' DEEP ANGLE HOLE. DRILL HAD BEEN LEVELLED AND ALL JACKS HAD BEEN EXTENDED. DERRICK WAS BEING POSITIONED WHEN DRILL OVERTURNED ONTO RIGHT SIDE, TRAPPING DRILLER IN CAB.