Mining Incidents

Mclaughlin Engineering & Mining Inc. contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: WPG
Safety record
1
Fatalities
89
Citations
592,006
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
150.3 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 · 3 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 2 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2018
1
2017
2
2016
3
1997
2 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
March 13, 1997 CA · Metal/Non-Metal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Golden Queen Mining Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS APPARENTLY DRIVING A COMPANY VEHICLE WITH A PASSENGER, EE. THEY WEE APPARENTLY DRIVING DOWN FROM THE TOP OF SOLEDAD MTN WHEN THE TRUCK SKIDDED DOWN THE ROAD AND FELL OVER THE SIDE.