Mining Incidents

Strunk Bros Co contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: IR2
Safety record
1
Fatalities
54
Citations
131,573
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
410.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 5 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
  • ELECTRICAL 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2003
3
2002
1
2001
5
2000
1
1999
1 (1f)
1998
1
1996
1
1995
1
1993
1
1992
2
1991
2
1984
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
November 18, 1999 IL · Metal/Non-Metal backhoe operator, trackhoe operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Frank N Butler Company · Struck against a moving object

FROM PRELIMINARY: THE SCRAPER WAS ASCENDING A RAMP AFTER BEING LOADED AND STOPPED JUST AS IT APPROACHED THE CREST. IT TRAVELED BACKWARD DOWN RAMP ABOUT 90 FEET, PROCEEDED OVER THE HIGHWALL AND DROPPED 78 FEET TO THE QUARRY FLOOR.