Mining Incidents

Brown & Root Usa Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: W27
Safety record
1
Fatalities
6
Citations
1,448,345
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
4.1 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 · 23 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 128 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 66 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 60 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 54 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 10 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001
1
2000
28
1998
12
1997
4
1996
6
1995
25
1994
7
1993
14
1992
20
1991
26 (1f)
1990
48
1989
32
1988
28
1987
52
1986
4
1985
6
1984
17
1983
34

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
March 13, 1991 CA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Co Ca Mines Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPL WAS DRIVING HAUL TRUCK JTA0627 WITH LOAD OF ORE TO ORE DUMP. HE BACKED UP TO BERM & STARTED TO DUMP WHEN APPARENTLY DUMP FAILED CAUSING HAUL TRUCK TO ROLL OVER BACKWARDS OFF OF ORE DUMP 7 0 TO 70' ROLLING SEVERAL TIMES COMING TO REST ONRIGHT SIDE OF TRUCK AT BOTTOM OF SLOPE.