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Ritter J D: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: M06138

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1985

Top causes

FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1985

1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Ritter Mining Company 1

Mines on record

GOLDEN WONDER CO

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

November 17, 1985 CO · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS

Ritter Mining Company · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

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Where Ritter J D 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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