Mining Incidents

Falcon Drilling & Blasting Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: XSM
Safety record
1
Fatalities
33
Citations
210,230
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.
4.76
Fatalities / million hrs
157.0 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
  • MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
1 (1f)
2023
1
2014
1
1996
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
August 7, 2025 WI · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Highpoint Sand and Gravel LLC · Struck against a moving object

UNKNOWN AT TIME OF REPORT. A miner died when the front-end loader EE was operating went over a highwall and fell approximately 70 feet.