Mining Incidents

B G S Construction Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: ZAG
Safety record
1
Fatalities
80
Citations
700,498
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.
1.43
Fatalities / million hrs
114.2 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 24 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 10 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal
  • OTHER 2 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2008
2
2007
3
2006
5
2005
6
2004
5
2003
7
2002
6
2001
7
2000
8 (1f)
1998
4

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
August 16, 2000 WV · Coal welder (shop) Fatality · MACHINERY
Consolidation Coal Company · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

THE WORKER WAS WELDING OVER THE WASHER STANDING ON A SCAFFOLDING. THE WORKER EITHER WAS PULLED OR FELL INTO THE WASHER TO HIS DEATH