Dyno Nobel East-Central Region contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: W21

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 30
Citations: 265,395
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.: 0.00
Fatalities / million hrs

113.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

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

Top causes

EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS 1 fatality
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
MACHINERY 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001

1996

1 (1f)

1992

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

May 8, 1996 PA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS

Miller Quarries-Div/Miller & Son Paving Inc · Struck by flying object

WE BELIEVE THE VICTIM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF ASSEMBLING A DETASLIDE DETONATOR INTO THE CAVITY OF A HDP-1 BOOSTER, WHEN THE CAP OF THE DETASLIDE UNIT SAW OUTSIDE PRESSURES TO THE EXTENT THAT THE CAP DETONATED & IN TURN DETONATED THE HDP-1 BOOSTER INSTANTLY KILLING THE VICTIM.