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Asarco Inc: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C00986

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 134
Mines on record: 3
Years on record: 1983–1989

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 43 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 32 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 18 non-fatal
MACHINERY 11 non-fatal
STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 7 non-fatal

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Operators under this controller

Midland Coal Company 134

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

September 12, 1983 IL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Midland Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

MAN WAS DRIVING A LOWBOY TRACTOR TRAILER UP A RAMP OFF THE BENCH. AS HE WENT UP THE RAMP THE TRACTOR FLIPPED OVER BACKWARDS AND CRUSHED THE MAN INSIDE THE CAB.

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Where Asarco Inc stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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