Mining Incidents

Dynatec Drilling contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: IU3
Safety record
1
Fatalities
20
Citations
714,541
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.
0.00
Fatalities / million hrs
28.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 fatality · 19 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 22 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 21 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 19 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 3 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2005
3
2004
4
2003
3
2002
2
2001
1
2000
4
1999
5
1998
3
1997
1
1996
6 (1f)
1995
4
1994
2
1993
26
1992
15
1991
3
1990
7
1988
2
1987
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
March 9, 1996 NV · Metal/Non-Metal driller operator Fatality · HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · Struck by flying object

INJURED WAS HOLDING BACK-UP WRENCH WHILE 2 OTHER HANDS TORQUED STUCK DRILL RODS. BACK-UP WRENCH SLIPPED WHEN RODS WERE FULLY TORQUED, ALLOWING OTHER WRENCH TO FLIP OVER RODS AND STRIKE HIM IN THE HEAD.