Mining Incidents

Morton Salt Div/Morton International IncOperator

Controlled by K+S Aktiengesellschaft
MSHA Operator ID: L16848
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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#295of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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.

For counsel + compliance teams

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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

Incident timeline

2010
32
2009
33 (1f)
2008
38
2007
49
2006
32
2005
20
2004
33
2003
41
2002
34
2001
37
2000
34

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

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.