The accident occurred while performing maintenance on a forklift. Injury occurred when the forklift apparently moved, crushing the miner between forklift and wooden support column. Specific details are currently under investigation.
United Salt Hockley, LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 39
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2014–2025
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.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Superior Silica Sands, LLC2fatal38 total
- Star Mine Operations, LLC2fatal38 total
- Zeotech Corporation1fatal39 total
- Osaka Mining Corporation1fatal38 total
- United Salt Hockley, LLCthis operator1fatal39 total
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 MATERIALS11 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON8 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal
- HOISTING4 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK3 non-fatal