The investigation is not complete, but as of now it appears that the employee had washed the #2 drill and was rolling up the hose when a portion of the mine roof collapsed, striking and covering him with a section of the salt roof.
Morton Salt Div/Morton International IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 383
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2000–2010
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.
- Performance Coal Company, LLC31fatal379 total
- Bridger Coal Company4fatal379 total
- Lhoist North America of Arizona Inc.2fatal383 total
- Crimson Oak Grove Resources LLC1fatal380 total
- Morton Salt Div/Morton International Incthis operator1fatal383 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 12 non-fatal
- HOISTING197 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS44 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON29 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE22 non-fatal
- MACHINERY15 non-fatal