Mining Incidents

TRI STATE TRANSPORT INC: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: 6DA
Safety record
1
Fatalities
0
Citations
0
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

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1997
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
April 27, 1997 IA · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

TRUCK DRIVER OR TRISTATE TRANSPORT SUFFERED FATAL TRAUMATIC HEAD INJURIED WHEN HE FELL. VICTIM FAILED TO USE A SAFETY BELT AND LINE RESTRAINT SYSTEM AT TRUCK WASH AREA BEHIND THE LIME PLANT. V ICTIM CLIMBED ON TOP OF TANK TRAILER TO HOSE IT OFF. WAS FOUND SHORT TIME LATER LYING ON GROUND WITH SEVERE HEAD INJURIED AND NO VITAL SIGNS.