Mining Incidents

CORE Machinery LLC contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: U40
Safety record
1
Fatalities
63
Citations
792,243
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
79.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 23 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 9 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 6 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 6 non-fatal
  • OTHER 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2024
1
2023
1
2022
2
2021
1
2013
1
2012
1
2011
1
2008
2
2007
5
2006
3
2005
1
2004
1
1999
7 (1f)
1998
4
1997
8
1996
8
1993
1
1984
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
February 15, 1999 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE OPERATING A CHEVY PICKUP TRUCK, EE, A ROAD MACHINERY CO. EE, MOVED IN FRONT OF A PARKED 320 TON KOMATSU HAUL TRUCK. THE HAUL TRUCK, OPERATED BY A PHELPS DODGE EE PROCEEDED FORWARD, THE P ICKUP TRUCK WAS DESTROYED AND EE WAS FATALLY INJURED. EE WAS TRAINED HOW TO PROPERLY APPROACH A HAUL TRUCK AND WHERE BLIND SPOTS EXISTED IN AN OPERATOR'S FIELD OF VISION.