Mining Incidents

Hertzler Electrical Services: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: R495
Safety record
1
Fatalities
3
Citations
71,753
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.
n/a
Fatalities / million hrs
No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2010
3 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
October 10, 2010 OK · Metal/Non-Metal electrician helper Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Flash burns (electric)

The investigation into the accident is on-going, but as of now, it appears as the three employees were installing ground vault indicator lights when an ach flash occurred, injuring them. The employees were transported to the hospital.