Cracked stone fell and crushed employee. Employee didn't follow procedure. Employee's lanyard wasn't tied off and the employee was using a foot wedge and jackhammer with 1 1/4"" bit. Employee should have been using 3/4"" plug drill and 5"" tether and wedge. The employee was drilling from the base and should have been drilling at the top.
Blue Sky Quarries, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 5
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2010–2023
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.
- Frontera Materials Inc2fatal5 total
- St. Henry Tile Co., Inc.1fatal5 total
- R J Valente Gravel1fatal5 total
- Southwestern State Sand Corp1fatal5 total
- Blue Sky Quarries, Inc.this operator1fatal5 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
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
- DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)1 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal