Mining Incidents

Atlas Fausett Contracting contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: VL2
Safety record
1
Fatalities
23
Citations
275,684
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
83.4 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 · 9 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 35 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 16 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 12 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 7 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2008
4
2007
4
2006
2
2005
1
1998
4
1997
1
1996
7
1995
3
1994
11
1993
6 (1f)
1991
5
1989
5
1988
17
1987
2
1986
1
1985
7
1984
12

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
June 17, 1993 WA · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Resource Finance Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS TESTING A 3 1/2 YARD MUCKER, HE WAS BACKING THE MUCKER UP WITH A LOADED BUCKET IN A RAISED POSITION ON A SUPER (GRADE), THE MUCKER ROLLED OVER ON TOP OF HIM.