Mining Incidents

Tarmac Plc: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: M06014

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
647
Mines on record
35
Years on record
1983–2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
91
citations
24
significant & substantial
$18,128
proposed penalties
$18,128
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
35
inspections on record
769
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: 769 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$18K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
91 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-12-03.
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.
26.4%
significant & substantial
1.1%
high negligence or reckless
27.5%
reasonably likely or greater
70.3%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 7.7% low, 91.2% moderate, 1.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2007 0.00 0.00 0.000
2006 0.00 0.00 0.000
2005 0.00 0.00 0.000
2004 0.00 0.00 0.000
2003 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 0.00 0.00 0.000
2001 0.00 0.00 0.000
2000 2.02 0.67 0.000
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: 2007-08-30, 18 years ago
9%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
130
samples
70
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz706 over
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg40
  • Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz20
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
15
1999
25
1998
18
1997
17
1996
38
1995
27
1994
19
1993
25
1992
72
1991
61
1990
64
1989
110
1988
29
1987
58 (1f)
1986
39
1985
19
1984
3
1983
8

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
June 1, 1987 TX · Metal/Non-Metal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Tarmac Texas Inc · Contact with electrical current

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Where Tarmac Plc 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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