Mining Incidents

Geotemps Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: V3H
Safety record
1
Fatalities
20
Citations
6,385,683
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.
0.16
Fatalities / million hrs
3.1 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 · 23 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 46 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 18 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 14 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 10 non-fatal
  • OTHER 4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2018
1
2016
1
2011
5
2010
4
2009
1
2008
6 (1f)
2007
4
2006
12
2005
18
2004
13
2003
10
2002
2
2001
9
2000
9
1999
6
1998
4
1997
3
1996
8
1995
2
1994
3
1993
5
1992
2
1988
1
1987
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
September 1, 2008 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc. · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The victim had been instructing persons making a belt splice. He fell through a 4 foot by 6 foot opening 28 feet to the floor below.