Mining Incidents

Plaza Materials CompanyOperator

Controlled by Carl E Petrillo
MSHA Operator ID: L11360
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
30
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2000–2007

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
#309of 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.

For counsel + compliance teams

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under Plaza Materials Company. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL1 fatality
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS7 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
  • OTHER2 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2007
5
2006
4
2005
7
2004
2
2002
2 (1f)
2001
5
2000
5

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Contact with electrical current

EE WAS WELDING A PLATE ON TOPOF THE 3-DECK SCREEN. AT ABOUT 1855 HE SCREAMED. COWORKER WAS WORKING BELOW HIM AND HE RAN TO SEE WHAT WAS WRONG. HE IN TURN YELLED FOR THE SUPERVISOR. THEY FOUND EE LYING ON THE SCREEN WITH THE WELDING STINGER ON TOP OF HIM. COWORKER THREW THE STINGER OFF, RAN AND TURNED THE WELDER OFF. HE CAME BACK, CHECKED AND FOUND A PULSE. HE THEN RAN AND CALLED 91