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Rail Link Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: JVU
Safety record
1
Fatalities
50
Citations
4,519,660
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.
0.22
Fatalities / million hrs
11.1 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 · 10 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 7 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 7 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
  • STRIKING OR BUMPING 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
1
2018
2
2015
1
2014
1
2009
1
2008
2
2007
2
2006
4
2005
3
2004
1
2003
3
2002
1 (1f)
2001
2
1999
1
1997
1
1996
1
1993
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
August 6, 2002 WY · Metal/Non-Metal motorman, motor person, swamper, switchman, locomotive operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

RAILCAR WAS POSITIONED IN THE EAST END OF NO. 12 TRACK CREATING A CLOSE CLEARANCE. THERE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT CLEARANCE TO ALLOW AN EE RIDING ON THE SIDE OF RAILCAR TO PASS BY ANOTHER RAILCAR. T HE RAILCAR WAS BEING SHOVED THROUGH THE CROSSOVER TRACK LEADING TO THE COLD ASH SPOT.