Mining Incidents

TJS Welding: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: S315
Safety record
1
Fatalities
14
Citations
234,028
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.
4.27
Fatalities / million hrs
59.8 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 fatality
  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
2 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
September 3, 2026 NV · Metal/Non-Metal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor Fatality · HANDLING OF MATERIALS
KG Mining (Bald Mountain) Inc. · Struck by falling object

Unbolted flange connection to swap out gasket. While aligning flange bolt holes to install bolts the pipe shifted and rolled off dunnage and crushed worker. Which resulted in a fatal head injury