4-employees were performing preventative maintenance on the aerial tram system used to transport stone from the quarry to the plant. While tensioning the steel cable used to carry the tram buckets, the hydraulic cylinder assembly pulled loose from its anchor point. One employee was fatally injured and another suffered a broken leg, after being struck by components of the system.
Pioneer Sands LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 176
- Mines on record
- 8
- Years on record
- 2000–2019
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 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- O-N Minerals (Chemstone Company)2fatal181 total
- Premier Silica LLCthis operator2fatal176 total
- Signal Peak Energy LLC1fatal175 total
- Quest Energy Corp.1fatal174 total
- Dags Branch Coal Company Inc1fatal173 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 38 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 14 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS62 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)18 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE11 non-fatal
- OTHER8 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEMPLOYEE FELL APPROX 65 FT FROM LIFT BASKET HELD BY CRANE. HE WAS NOT WEARING SAFETY HARNESS. HE WAS REACHING FOR A BUCKET OF WATER HANDED UP FROM BELOW. WORKING ON A TAILINGS RELOCATION PROJE CT AT OLD QUARRY AT VOCA WEST.