Mining Incidents

Oro Grande Constructors- AMEC-Zachry Joint Venture contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: M255
Safety record
1
Fatalities
55
Citations
2,450,187
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.
0.41
Fatalities / million hrs
22.4 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 1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 11 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
  • OTHER 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2008
1
2007
18 (1f)
2006
9

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
October 25, 2007 CA · Metal/Non-Metal miner, prospector, nec Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Riverside Cement Co · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Employee was assessing work area at floor opening. Employee fell into floor opening. The ensuing fall resulted in fatal head injuries.