THE VICTIM, A LOADER OPERATOR, WAS CLEANING MATERIAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYOR WHEN HE ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK ONE OF THE LEG SUPPORTS, KNOCKING THE CONVEYOR OVER. A SECOND LOADER OPERATOR WAS SUMMONED TO LIFT & RESET THE CONVEYOR. THE RIGGING FAILED AND THE CONVEYOR FELL, STRIKING THE VICTIM AS HE WALKED UNDER THE RAISED CONVEYOR
Southway Construction Co. Inc. of AlamosaOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 17
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2001–2016
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.
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- Southway Construction Company Inc of Alamosathis operator1fatal17 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
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS6 non-fatal
- MACHINERY3 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND2 non-fatal