Summit Inc: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: X52

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 1
Citations: 43,668
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.: n/a
Fatalities / million hrs

No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.

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

Top causes

FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 19 non-fatal
MACHINERY 11 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 7 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 6 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 6 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

January 5, 1995 SD · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Homestake Mining Company Of California · Struck by falling object

SUDDEN MASSIVE UNPREDICTABLE FAILURE OF EAST HIGHWALL RESULTED IN THE ACCIDENT. THE FALLING SLIDING ROCK CRUSHED THE 5130 SHOVEL KILLING THE OPERATOR. IT ALSO SERIOUSLY IMPACTED THE 85 TON TRU CK BEING LOADED WITH RESULTING HEAD AND LEG WOUNDS TO THE DRIVER.