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Layne Christensen Company contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: PU3
Safety record
1
Fatalities
146
Citations
6,859,166
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
21.3 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 · 23 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 87 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 40 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 29 non-fatal
  • OTHER 4 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
1
2024
3
2023
6
2022
4
2021
1
2020
2
2019
2
2018
2
2017
4
2016
3
2015
3
2014
2
2013
6
2012
4
2011
9
2010
11
2009
1
2008
12
2007
12
2006
10
2005
11
2004
9
2003
2
2002
2
2000
1
1999
10
1998
6 (1f)
1997
11
1996
23
1995
11
1994
9
1993
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
August 18, 1998 CA · Metal/Non-Metal drill helper Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
U S Borax Inc · Drowning

BASED ON THE PRELIMINARY INFORMATION, IT APPEARS THAT AN EMPLOYEE OF LAYNE CHRISTENSEN CO, DIED ON TUESDAY, 8-18-98. HIS DEAD BODY WAS DISCOVERED BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE OF LAYNE CHRISTENSEN AT AP PROX. 5:15 PM. HIS BODY WAS DISCOVERED LYING FACE DOWN IN A MUD SUMP IN APPROX. 3 FEET OF WATER. AT THIS TIME IT IS UNKNOWNN WHAT CAUSED HIS DEATH.