Contact with electrical current
A contractor died at the operation underground. The cause of death is unknown at the time of this report. MSHA issued a 103(k) order on the area. The information in this report is all we have at this time.
Compass Minerals Louisiana Inc.Operator
Controlled by Compass Minerals International, Inc.
MSHA Operator ID: 0136233
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 95
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2014–2026
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.
This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Small Mine Development, LLC5fatal92 total
- Southern MN Construction2fatal95 total
- Allegheny Metallurgical, LLC1fatal97 total
- Nicholas-Contura, LLC1fatal97 total
- Compass Minerals Louisiana Inc.this operator1fatal95 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
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HOISTING30 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON17 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS15 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)9 non-fatal
- MACHINERY6 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
1
2025
4
2024
7
2023
4
2022
5
2021
15
2020
15
2019
9 (1f)
2018
6
2017
13
2016
9
2015
4
2014
3