Mining Incidents

Hanson Aggregates Midwest Inc: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: UUD
Safety record
1
Fatalities
15
Citations
717,016
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
20.9 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • OTHER 1 fatality
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 3 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
2
2021
1
2020
1
2012
1
2010
4
2005
1
2002
1
2001
1
2000
1
1999
1
1998
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
December 7, 1998 IL · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · OTHER

THE DECEASED AND THREE CO-WORKERS WERE BOARDING A PONTOON TYPE RAFT TO REPAIR A V-BELT GUARD. AS ALL FOUR MEN WERE ON THE RAFT, IT BEGAN TO TIP CAUSING ALL TO FALL INTO THE QUARRY SUMP WATER. THREE EMPLOYEES WERE ABLE TO SWIN TO SAFETY AND THE FOURTH WAS UNABLE AND WAS FOUND IN 25' OF WATER BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DIVERS.