The victim was operating a track dozer to clean off a drill bench in preparation for drilling. The bench was 45 feet above the quarry floor. Apparently the victim was attmpting to turn the dozer around on the bench, backed off this area, and fell to the quarry floor.
Knife River Corporation-NorthwestOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 133
- Mines on record
- 28
- 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 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Andalex Resources Inc.3fatal135 total
- BHP Copper Inc2fatal133 total
- Texas Lime Company1fatal133 total
- Red Bone Mining Company1fatal132 total
- Morse Brothers Incthis operator1fatal133 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 · 13 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS44 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON23 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)18 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE13 non-fatal
- OTHER8 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Crusher #2ID
- Crusher #1ID
- Wash Plant 2ID
- Wash PlantID
- WATTERS PITOR
- METRO PORTABLE #3OR
- Albany Rock ProductsOR
- FISHER ISLAND PLANTOR
- METRO PORTABLE #4WA
- KEIZER PIT & PLANTOR
- KIRTLANDOR
- STAYTON ROCK PITOR
- Farmington PitOR
- DEER ISLAND PLANTOR
- REED PITOR
- COFFEE LAKE PONDOR
- ROGUE PORTABLE #4OR
- WILLAMETTE PORTABLE #1OR
- Angell QuarryOR
- ROGUE PORTABLE #1OR
- METRO PORTABLE #2OR
- METRO PORTABLE #1OR
- CENTRAL OREGON PORTABLE #2OR
- WILLAMETTE PORTABLE #2OR
- ROGUE PORTABLE #2OR
- WATERVIEWOR
- ROGUE PORTABLE #3OR
- ROGUE PORTABLE #7OR