Appalachian Tree & Stone: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: C345

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 4
Citations: 1,078
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

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2001

1 (1f)

Mines worked

Schoolhouse Quartz Plant NC

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

July 4, 2001 NC · Metal/Non-Metal truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Unimin Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

AN APPARENT BRAKE MALFUNCTION CAUSED THE VICTIM TO EXIT THE CAB & WAS PULLED UNDER THE REAR WHEELS OR HE PARKED IT & CRAWLED UNDER THE BED TO CHECK A PROBLEM. EITHER SENARIO CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO ROLL OVER HIS BODY CRUSHING HIM TO DEATH. THERE WAS NO APPARENT DAMAGE TO THE TRUCK.