Mining Incidents

Reliance Resources, LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: M879
Safety record
1
Fatalities
59
Citations
419,401
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.
2.38
Fatalities / million hrs
140.7 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
  • NONPOWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2011
1
2010
1 (1f)
2009
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
May 26, 2010 UT · Metal/Non-Metal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Denison Mines (USA) Corp. · Struck by falling object

Blasted drift and was ready for baring down and mucking. Unknown cause of death at this time. The victim was hand scaling the north rib of the left 4500 drift when loose material fell on him.