Mining Incidents

Boart Longyear Company contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: Y12
Safety record
1
Fatalities
364
Citations
22,209,687
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.
0.05
Fatalities / million hrs
16.4 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 60 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 173 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 75 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 67 non-fatal
  • OTHER 8 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 7 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
2
2025
12
2024
10
2023
23
2022
20
2021
12
2020
6
2019
4
2018
7
2017
12
2016
10
2015
10
2014
8
2013
11
2012
18
2011
36
2010
15
2009
7
2008
5
2005
2
2001
3
2000
6 (1f)
1999
5
1998
2
1997
8
1996
15
1995
19
1994
16
1993
13
1992
27
1991
7
1990
21
1989
14
1988
7
1987
8
1986
2
1985
8
1984
2
1983
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
April 10, 2000 NV · Metal/Non-Metal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Barrick Turquoise Ridge Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE BECAME ENTANGLED IN ROTATING RODS, WHILE MAKING A CONNECTION RESULTING IN A FATALITY.