Amos Horton Grading Inc: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: V8N

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 15
Citations: 96,611
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.: n/a
Fatalities / million hrs

No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.

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

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1997

1 (1f)

Mines worked

RIDGEWAY MINE SC

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 20, 1997 SC · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Kennecott Ridgeway Mining Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

ACCORDING TO WITNESS, EE WHO WAS ALSO OPERATING A HT 10(35 TON HAUL TRUCK), HE PULLED HIS TRUCK ALONG SIDE ANOTHER 35 TON HAUL TRUCK (HT15) TOGIVE IT A JUMP START BATTERY TO BATTERY. AFTER ST ARTING THE HT1 HE WENT TO THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK TO GET THE UMPR CABLES FROM EE WHO WAS MANNING HT15. HE PROCEEDED DOWN TO THE TOOL TRUCK TO PUT THE CABLES AWAY AND ON HIS RETURN NOTICED HT 1