Mining Incidents

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#238of 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

  • 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 recorded
Struck by falling object

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.