Mining Incidents

Blue Circle Aggregates IncOperator

Controlled by Blue Circle Industries Plc
MSHA Operator ID: L11161
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
32
Mines on record
11
Years on record
2000–2001

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
#296of 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 · 1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS11 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)6 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON6 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY3 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001
12
2000
20 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Drowning

WAS INSTRUCTED TO HOW OUT OF ANOTHER PIT. THE EE MADE THE TRONSITION WITH NO PROBLEM. ON THE EE'S LAST LOAD BEFORE THE END OF THE SHIFT, FOOT DEEP POOL OF WATER. AFTER EVENING THE WATER THE EE RAISED HIS TRUCK BED & TURNED HIS WINDSHIELD WIPERS ON. THE EE THEN EMPTED TO EXIT FROM VEHCILE ONTO A DIRT ENBANKMENT THAT WAS ABOUT 2 FT AWAY. THE EE DID NOT MAKE IT TO THE ENBANKMENT AND D