Mining Incidents

Ledcor CMI Inc. contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: Y0B
Safety record
3
Fatalities
102
Citations
1,723,261
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.
0.58
Fatalities / million hrs
59.2 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 18 non-fatal
  • EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 10 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 9 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 9 non-fatal
  • ELECTRICAL 3 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2008
2
2007
3
2006
1
2005
11 (1f)
2004
5
2003
2
2002
3
2001
2
1998
2
1997
1
1995
1
1993
3 (1f)
1992
1
1991
2
1990
4 (1f)
1989
9
1988
11

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

3 recorded
July 30, 2005 NV · Metal/Non-Metal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · Struck against stationary object

Worker was fatally injured while driving a CAT 769C Water Truck along a standard mine haul road, returning to the water stand to re-fill the water tank. The water truck drifted left, onto the berm, travelling approximately 160' before "cartwheeling" and ejecting the worker. The worker does not appear to have been wearing the supplied seat belt.

October 22, 1993 NV · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Newmont Mining Corporation · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

TWO EMPLOYEES WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED ONE FATALY WHILE UNHOOKING A SLING FROM A CONVEYOR SECTION MOVED INTO PLACE BY A 235C BACKHOE(CAT) TWO TEMPOARARY DRILL STEEL LEGS HAD BEEN WELDED ONTO THE CONVEYOR EE FOR SUPPORT ONE LEG FAILED CAUSING THE CONVEYOR EE TO ROLL RT THEN FALL TO THE GROUND PINNING BOTH MEN BENEATH IT SECOND PERSON SERIOUSLY INJURED WITH LOSS OF ONE LEG TO DATE

May 5, 1990 NV · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Ivanhoe Gold Company · Fall from machine

LUBRICATING TRANS SHIFT CABLE WHEN L FRONT TIRE ON SCRAPER BLEW OUT FORCE SENT HIM IN LINKAGE THEN UP AND OVER THE 631D LANDED 27 FT FROM WHERE HE HAND BEEN WORKING MULT. TRAUMA