Dyno Nobel: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal

MSHA contractor ID: B6Z

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 12
Citations: 47,929
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

EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS 1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2002

1997

2 (1f)

1988

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

July 16, 1997 CT · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS

The York Hill Trap Rock Quarry Company, Inc. · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHILE 2 EES WERE LOADING BOREHOLE, 1 CARTRIDGE OF EXPLOSIVE BECAME LODGED. WHILE TRYNG TO DEAL WITH THE LOADGED CARTRIDGE, IT DETONATED. THE DETONATION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT BODILY INJURY TO TWO EES. THE FORCE OF THE DETONATION CAUSED ONE EE TO GO OVER THE HIGHWALL; THIS EE DIED.