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United States Gypsum Company Metal/Non-Metal

United States Gypsum Company · Facility

Controlled by USG Corporation

New Orleans, Orleans County, LA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1600190

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2003
Latest incident: Jan 2003

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$1,407

proposed penalties

$1,407

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	Per 1M hrs
2004 Q3	0	0
2004 Q2	1,291	0	0.0
2004 Q1	7,141	1	140.0
2003 Q4	8,295	0	0.0
2003 Q3	8,042	1	124.3
2003 Q2	7,630	0	0.0
2003 Q1	6,522	0	0.0
2002 Q4	8,680	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

January 21, 2003 LA · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE

United States Gypsum Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS BACKING DOWN A RAMP ON A WORKSAVER. THE WORKSAVER BECAME UNSTABLE & HE STRUCK A PARKED FORK TRUCK. HIS RIGHT LEG WAS OUTSIDE THE WORKSAVER & WAS PINCHED BETWEEN IT & THE PARKED FORK TRU CK. DUE TO THE UNSTABLENESS OF THE WORKSAVER, HE LOST HIS BALANCE, CAUSING HIS RIGHT LEG TO BE OUT OF THE WORKSAVER DURING THE COLLISION.