During a pipe breaking operation by the float crew on the #5 Matrix line near the #8 Lift Pump, the Leaderman was struck by a pipe and suffered fatal injuries. The investigation of the accident by MSHA and the company is ongoing. Autopsy results are also pending.
White Springs Ag Chems Inc dba NutrienOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 225
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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.
- National Cement Company Of California Inc4fatal224 total
- Premier Elkhorn Coal Company, LLC2fatal227 total
- White Springs Ag Chems Inc dba Nutrienthis operator2fatal225 total
- Syar Industries, Inc1fatal223 total
- Patton Mining LLC1fatal227 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
- MACHINERY2 fatalities · 29 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS67 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON56 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)21 non-fatal
- DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)14 non-fatal
- OTHER13 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedThe victim was operating an excavator near a canal when the excavator tipped on its side and went in the water. The victim was able to get out of the cab and transported to a hospital where he died at 5:45 p.m.