While preparing to perform side frame/track repairs on a 4100A shovel. When the relief valve was ejected from the jack. Employee was struck by a pressure relief valve in the lower left abdominal/waist area. The injury resulted in the death of the employee.
Freeport-McMoRan Tyrone IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 302
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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.
- White Buck Coal Company2fatal300 total
- ICG Beckley LLC2fatal300 total
- Round Mountain Gold Corporation1fatal301 total
- Ramaco Resources, LLC1fatal301 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Tyrone Incthis operator1fatal302 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 37 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS96 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON60 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE29 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)27 non-fatal
- OTHER22 non-fatal