Mining Incidents

TIC-The Industrial Company contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: K48
Safety record
3
Fatalities
238
Citations
18,907,412
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.
0.05
Fatalities / million hrs
12.6 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 2 fatalities · 4 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 fatality · 194 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 344 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 186 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 117 non-fatal
  • OTHER 36 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2023
1
2020
4
2015
1
2014
8
2013
3 (1f)
2012
13
2011
6
2010
1
2008
8
2007
21
2006
7
2005
20
2004
12
2003
8
2002
5
2001
2
2000
74
1999
81
1998
22
1997
31
1996
62
1995
33
1994
18
1993
7
1992
41
1991
59
1990
22 (1f)
1989
138
1988
91
1987
45
1986
35 (1f)
1985
34
1984
36
1983
17

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

3 recorded
April 4, 2013 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Freeport-McMoRan Bagdad Inc · Struck by falling object

The crew was attempting to align a section of pipe, which is 40 feet long, when the 2 pipes disconnected and 1 end of the pipe that the crew was trying to install slipped out of the joint and struck the employee. An excavator was being used to position a 36" pipe diameter by 40' long section pipe to connect it to another section of pipe.

January 17, 1986 NV · Metal/Non-Metal Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fmc Gold Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

VICTIM WAS ADJU8TING CONVEYOR IDLERS ABOVE GROUND 75'-80'. A SAFETY BELT WITH 2 LANYARDS WAS BEING USED BY VICTIM TO PROTECT AGAINST A FALL WHILE PERFORMING THE REQUIRED WORK. VICTIMS LANYARDS *%<<%*<*<%<*%<*3 VICTIM UNTIED LANYARDS TO MOVE TO NEXT WORK POSITION WHEN FALL OCCURRED.