Mining Incidents

Cdk Contracting Co contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: L35
Safety record
3
Fatalities
104
Citations
2,267,605
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.
0.44
Fatalities / million hrs
45.9 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 fatalities · 70 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 103 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 67 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 44 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 12 non-fatal
  • OTHER 11 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001
13 (1f)
2000
25
1999
10 (1f)
1998
14
1997
17
1996
28
1995
5
1994
14
1993
10
1992
3
1991
10
1990
5
1989
20
1988
24 (1f)
1987
37
1986
43
1985
26
1984
5
1983
10

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

3 recorded
February 26, 2001 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Holnam Inc · Fall from ladders

ACCORDING TO WITNESS, EMPLOYEE FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD LADDER FROM AN UNKNOWN HEIGHT.

September 20, 1999 NV · Metal/Non-Metal welder (shop) Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS INSTALLING GRATING ON TOP OF THE CIL TANK THAT WAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. WHILE HANDLING A SECTION OF GRATING, EMPLOYEE FELL APPROX. 55' TO THE FLOOR OF THE TANK.

October 6, 1988 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

EMPLOYEE WAS RETURNING TO WORK STATION JUST AFTER LUNCH CLIMBING STRUCTURAL STEEL TO GET THERE WHEN HIS FEET SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO LOOSEN HIS GRIP AND FELL