Mining Incidents

Southern Refractories Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: R5U
Safety record
2
Fatalities
75
Citations
3,001,389
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
25.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 fatalities · 28 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 14 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 12 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 3 non-fatal
  • IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST 2 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
1
2023
1
2021
1
2020
3
2019
1
2018
1
2016
2
2015
5
2014
1
2013
2
2010
1
2009
2
2008
3
2007
4
2005
1
2004
2
2003
1
2002
1
1999
2
1998
2
1997
3
1996
7 (2f)
1995
5
1994
1
1993
1
1992
1
1991
3
1989
3
1988
1
1987
1
1986
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded