THE VICTIM WAS USING A RUBBER-TIRED DOZER TO PUSH TRUCKS OUT OF THE PIT. HE HAD PUSHED ONE TRUCK OUT OF THE PIT AND WAS BACKING DOWN THE RAMP WHEN HE APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL OF THE DOZER. THE DOZER TRAVELED DOWN THE RAMP AND WENT OVER THE BERM. THE DOZER FELL INTO THE PIT WHICH CONTAINED 30 FEET OF WATER.
Calmat Company: 2 recorded fatalities operator
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Top causes
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 81 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 78 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 185 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 102 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 86 non-fatal
- OTHER 26 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Mission Valley Plant CA
- SATICOY PLANT CA
- RELIANCE PLANT CA
- Sloan Canyon Plant CA
- Pala Plant CA
- San Bernardino Plant CA
- Pleasanton Plant CA
- Upland Plant CA
- Corona Plant CA
- Sun Valley Plant CA
- PALMDALE PLANT CA
- Durbin Plant CA
- Carroll Canyon Plant CA
- Lakeside Plant CA
- Poway Plant CA
- San Juan Plant CA
- Hansen Dam Plant CA
- Boulevard Plant CA
- Santa Paula Plant CA
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEMPL DRIVING FRONT END LOADER.VEHICLE WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT EMPL JUMPED OUT OF VEHICLE AND WAS RUN OVER BY THE EQUIPMENT.
Where Calmat Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.
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