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Rockwood Specialties Group IncController

MSHA Controller ID: 0043717
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
30
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2003–2013

Safety benchmark

Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#545of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.

Top causes

  • OTHER1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS12 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON6 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY3 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE2 non-fatal
  • EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013
5
2012
5
2011
6
2010
1
2009
2
2008
3
2007
1
2006
1
2005
2
2004
1
2003
3 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
BYK Additives Inc.
Contact with hot objects or substances

EE WAS INSIDE MIXING TANK WHEN A STEAM SPARGER OPENED AND RELEASED STEAM RESULTING IN A FATALITY.