Rope access technician was performing inspection of downcomer duct. Around 11:30a.m.the technician became unresponsive by radio. Upon rescue and removal from downcomer duct, technician was alert and responsive with apparent head and leg injuries. Technician was transported to the hospital where they passed away on 9/21/2017.
Cementos Argos S AController
MSHA Controller ID: 0101985
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 250
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2011–2022
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.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- RMC Group PLC2fatal245 total
- Mc Carthy- Bush Corp1fatal251 total
- Zachry Corporation1fatal252 total
- Charles S Luck IV1fatal254 total
- Cementos Argos S Athis controller1fatal250 total
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
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS83 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON41 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)39 non-fatal
- MACHINERY30 non-fatal
- OTHER15 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2022
30
2021
21
2020
28
2019
20
2018
23
2017
36 (1f)
2016
19
2015
13
2014
26
2013
16
2012
15
2011
3
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by falling object