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C & W Drilling contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: MPH
Safety record
1
Fatalities
63
Citations
768,191
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.
1.30
Fatalities / million hrs
82.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2016
2
2014
1
2013
2
2012
1
2011
1
2010
2 (1f)
2009
1
2007
1
2004
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
May 5, 2010 AL · Metal/Non-Metal drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Lhoist North America of Alabama, LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Drill operator was fatally injured by the drill rig he was operating. The likely scenario is that the drill rig began to roll forward while he was at the back of the rig operating the controls for the drill. The victim may have attempted to stop the drill rig and was caught up under the rig and suffered fatal injuries. There were no witnesses to the accident.