C S Garber & Sons Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: J4C

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 43
Citations: 762,208
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

56.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality
MACHINERY 3 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

April 25, 1985 MD · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

D M Stoltzfus · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE DRILL HELPER WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN A PORTION OF THE HIGHWALL, HE WAS STANDING ON, FAILED. THE I-R,T-4 DRILL WAS SET-UP AND DRILLING THE LAST HOLE ON THE DRILL PATTERN. THE VICTIM LEAND OVER A BOULDER THAT WAS AT THE RIM OF THE HIGH WALL TO CHECK THE HIGHWALL FRO MOVEMENT, WHEN THAT SECTION OF THE WALL FAILED AND THE VICTIM FELL 72 FEET TO THE BENCH BELOW.