COPELAND CONSTRUCTION: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: LGE

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 0
Citations: 0
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.: n/a
Fatalities / million hrs

No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.

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

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1998

1 (1f)

Mines worked

Thompson Creek Mine ID

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 13, 1998 ID · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Thompson Creek Mining Company · Struck against a moving object

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A VOLVO BM-A30J, 30 TON TRUCK HAULING MILL TAILINGS. HE WAS RETURNING EMPTY DOWN A HAUL ROAD WITH A 20% GRADE AND LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK.THE TRUCK RAMMED THROUGH A 7-FOOT HIGH BERM AND DOWN TO AN ACCESS RAMP, APPROXIMATELY 15 FT BELOW. HE HAD COMPLETED EIGHT LOAD CYCLES PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. THE VICTIM WAS WEARING A SEAT BELT.