Mining Incidents

Montana Rockworks Inc.Operator

Controlled by Brad Mercord
MSHA Operator ID: 0083324
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
46
Mines on record
5
Years on record
2007–2025

Safety benchmark

Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#579of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.

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Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS22 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY12 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT2 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
1
2023
3
2022
6
2021
4
2020
2
2019
5
2018
4 (1f)
2017
7
2016
3
2015
3
2014
1
2013
2
2011
2
2010
1
2009
1
2007
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Struck against a moving object

Employee was in an articulating haul truck, was traveling down the haul road at the Quarry. The victim was moving the haul truck down a steep grade, around a turn, when the haul truck traveled through a berm and off a short drop-off. The victim was found hours later by the owner of the company, the victim was not wearing a seat belt.