Mining Incidents

Aquilex HydroChem, Inc. contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: WVT
Safety record
1
Fatalities
32
Citations
629,712
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.
1.59
Fatalities / million hrs
50.8 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 6 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 3 non-fatal
  • OTHER 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2020
1
2009
1 (1f)
2008
1
2007
1
2006
2
2005
1
2003
1
2002
1
2000
2
1999
1
1998
2
1997
3
1996
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
January 31, 2009 TX · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Sherwin Alumina Company, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Hydroblasing nozzle exited pipe striking employee.