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Nova Materials Company: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: M36808

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 12
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1983–1987

Top causes

ELECTRICAL 1 fatality
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 non-fatal
MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 2 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1987

1985

1984

1983

1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Nova Materials Company 12

Mines on record

Nova Materials Company TX

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

January 26, 1983 TX · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · ELECTRICAL

Nova Materials Company · Contact with electrical current

ROBERT TRAMMELL, OWNER OPERATOR FOR SUNSHINE TRANSPORATATION, INC. TRUCK #844. PULLED TRUCK UP TO DUMP OFF SAND, RAISED TRAILER TO DUMP, TRAILER CAME IN CONTACT WITH HIGH VOLTAGE LINE. TRAMMEL STEPPED OUT OF TRUCK, DEATH BYELECTROCUTION.

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Where Nova Materials Company 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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