Mining Incidents

Reynolds Metals Company: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: M00365

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1,636
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1983–2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
90
citations
20
significant & substantial
$13,525
proposed penalties
$13,525
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
7
inspections on record
884
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 884 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
89 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-11-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
22.2%
significant & substantial
11.1%
high negligence or reckless
22.2%
reasonably likely or greater
70.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.8% low, 81.1% moderate, 11.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2000
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
4.86
total case rate
0.93
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
About average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.77 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2000-11-15, 25 years ago
0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
63
samples
63
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Aluminum oxide fumes4
  • Arsenic fumes4
  • Beryllium fumes4
  • Cadmium oxide fumes4
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2000
59
1999
71
1998
140 (1f)
1997
151
1996
155
1995
130
1994
75
1993
119
1992
124
1991
116
1990
86
1989
189
1988
91
1987
59
1986
14
1985
27
1984
11
1983
19

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
August 1, 1998 TX · Metal/Non-Metal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Reynolds Metals Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TECHNICIAN A HYDRAULIC LINE FROM VALVE BANK ON A 990 WHEEL LOADER. THIS ACTION RELIEVED HYDRAULIC OIL FROM CYLINDERS. THIS WORK WAS PERFORMED IN CLOSE WORKING AREA UNDER LOADER FRAME. THE LOAD ER FRAME THEN MOVED DOWNWARD PINNING AND SUBSEQUENTLY CRUSHING TECHNICIAN BETWEEN LOAD FRAME AND MAIN BODY OF THE 990.

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Where Reynolds Metals 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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