Contact with hot objects or substances
The injured employee was performing maintenance on a rock crusher using a cutting torch when a fire occurred. The injured employee received burns to EE's body and which ultimately proved fatal.
Rockydale Quarries CorporationController
MSHA Controller ID: 0137041
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 14
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2019–2026
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
- Sterling Enterprises Inc; The Allen Company Inc1fatal14 total
- Lawrence Sali; Steve Sali1fatal14 total
- David Stevenson1fatal15 total
- RJS Holdings LLC; MWR Holdings LLC1fatal15 total
- Rockydale Quarries Corporationthis controller1fatal14 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
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 fatality
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON3 non-fatal
- MACHINERY3 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 non-fatal
- OTHER2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
1
2025
5 (1f)
2024
4
2022
1
2020
1
2019
2