Mining Incidents

Empire Southwest LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: LU6
Safety record
0
Fatalities
232
Citations
11,458,707
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
20.2 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 118 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 68 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 56 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 48 non-fatal
  • OTHER 17 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 14 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
6
2025
9
2024
13
2023
13
2022
4
2021
6
2020
4
2019
9
2018
5
2017
3
2016
6
2015
5
2014
2
2013
3
2012
3
2011
8
2010
14
2009
2
2008
20
2007
18
2006
13
2005
5
2004
1
2003
8
2002
6
2001
4
2000
5
1999
5
1998
9
1997
24
1996
23
1995
24
1994
19
1993
16
1992
4
1991
6
1990
6
1989
2
1988
2
1986
1

Mines worked