Major Drilling Underground contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: S580

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 77
Citations: 1,644,895
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.: 0.61
Fatalities / million hrs

46.8 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 fatality
MACHINERY 5 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 4 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 3 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019

2018

3 (1f)

2017

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2008

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

October 2, 2018 NY · Metal/Non-Metal driller operator Fatality · EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE

Empire State Mines LLC · Struck by flying object

An employee was attempting to clean out a previously blasted vertical drill hole with an air hose. A sudden release of pressure from an unknown source inside of the hole forced material to be ejected from the hole and struck the employee. The employee passed away from the incident.