Mining Incidents

Craig Neal & Sons, LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: H869
Safety record
1
Fatalities
24
Citations
173,900
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.
5.75
Fatalities / million hrs
138.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
1 (1f)
2004
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
April 24, 2014 LA · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Big River Industries · Struck against stationary object

Employee had worked an entire day operating a John Deere 750C Dozer along side another experienced dozer operator. At approximately 5:25pm the employee was last seen crossing over a dirt pile. A few minutes later that same employee saw the 750C dozer blade first in a ditch with the tracks still running and employee lying face up behind the machine.