Mining Incidents

Master Aggregates Toa Baja Corp.Operator

Controlled by Ricardo Cardona; Victor S Maldonado
MSHA Operator ID: L03225
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
77
Mines on record
5
Years on record
2000–2014

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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#88of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
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

  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 7 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS21 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON20 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)19 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE3 non-fatal
  • OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASES2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
4
2013
3
2012
2
2011
2
2010
6
2009
6 (1f)
2008
10
2007
6
2006
10
2005
7
2004
2
2003
5
2002
7 (1f)
2001
6
2000
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Struck by falling object

Employee was walking at the plant facilities, a cornerstone of the crane collapsed, hitting the employee directly to the body and falling down. Employee was wearing safety equipment as required (capacete). Received multiple injuries to the upper and lower body.

Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING MATERIAL WITH HIS BULLDOZER WHEN A LANDSLIDE FROM A SLOPED MINE WALL FELL WITH ROCKS CRUSHED THE CABIN. THE EMPLOYEE WAS TRAPPED AND WOUNDED WITH ONE OF THE SUPPORTS O F THE CABIN, CAUSING IMMEDIATE DEATH.