Mining Incidents

Cayuga Crushed Stone contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: WNK
Safety record
1
Fatalities
11
Citations
108,258
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.
9.24
Fatalities / million hrs
101.6 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2010
1 (1f)
2001
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
March 24, 2010 NY · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Cargill Salt · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Employee was in dump truck waiting to be loaded with bulk salt from under 150 ton bin to transfer it to the stockpile pad on Cargill Deicing property. He was being loaded with salt when the brackets from the bin gave way and landed on the cab of his truck pinning him inside.