Mining Incidents

Interstate Power Systems, Inc. contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: T02
Safety record
1
Fatalities
56
Citations
2,529,384
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.
0.40
Fatalities / million hrs
22.1 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 · 6 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 7 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 4 non-fatal
  • HOISTING 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
2
2017
1
2014
2 (1f)
2007
1
2006
1
2002
1
2001
1
2000
1
1999
1
1997
2
1993
1
1990
1
1989
2
1988
1
1987
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
February 27, 2014 IA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Fall from machine

Emp a contract worker repairing a Scaler in Mod 12. The emp had fallen to the ground in fetal position, locked arms, clenched fist and bleeding from the ears. The witness did not know if the emp fell from a height or ground level. The injured emp was airlifted. He was lacking oxygen to brain for 10 minutes. He was pronounced dead at 9:45AM on Feb 28.