Mining Incidents

Freeport McMoRan Reclamation Services contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: P422
Safety record
1
Fatalities
39
Citations
4,171,927
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.
0.24
Fatalities / million hrs
9.3 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • OTHER 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 5 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 5 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 4 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2015
1
2014
1
2013
1
2011
4
2010
2
2009
4 (1f)
2008
8

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
March 19, 2009 NM · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · OTHER
Freeport-McMoRan Chino Mines Company · Bodily reaction, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee got out of cab and stepped toward window & knee gave out. Employee did not slip or trip, footing was good, maintained 3 point contact, from a flat surface, but as employee shifted his weight his knee gave out.