Cargill Fertilizer, LLC · Contact with electrical current
DECEASED FAILED TO SECURE ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.
Cargill Fertilizer, LLC: 2 recorded fatalities operator
Controlled by
Cargill Inc
MSHA operator ID: L09219
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
74
citations
10
significant & substantial
$7,429
proposed penalties
$7,429
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
59
inspections on record
1,457
inspection hours
5.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.74 citations across 1,457 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
74 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $105K in penalties contested before the Commission, $70K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.13.7%
significant & substantial
4.1%
high negligence or reckless
13.7%
reasonably likely or greater
91.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 0.0% low, 95.9% moderate, 4.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2004
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.2.90
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.73 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2.90 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2003 | 2.33 | 0.21 | 0.000 |
| 2002 | 3.09 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2001 | 4.45 | 0.47 | 0.000 |
| 2000 | 1.78 | 0.45 | 0.000 |
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2004-09-21, 21 years ago
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.28
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg19
- Unlisted Particulate, respirable, <1% Qtz9
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.Largest penalties this operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket | Decision | Judge | Year | Proposed / upheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE 20000187M | Settlement | Zielinski | 2000 | $105K → $70K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- MACHINERY 1 fatality · 45 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 83 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 66 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 47 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 31 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2004
15
2003
16
2002
20
2001
23
2000
14
1999
27 (1f)
1998
25
1997
27
1996
20
1995
21
1994
42
1993
13
1992
7
1991
13
1990
6 (1f)
1989
6
1988
4
1987
3
1986
6
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recorded
Cargill Fertilizer, LLC · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
WORKING ON A ELEVATED PLATFORM APPROX. 100' IN THE AIR. WAS COMING DOWN WHEN VICTIM FORGOT TO DISCONNECT WELDING GROUND LEAD FROM WORK AREA. PLATFORM TILTED AND GROUND CABLE STRUCK VICTIM IN H EAD CAUSING UNCONSCIOUSNESS. VICTIM THEN ROLLED OUT OF PLATFORM AND FELL TO GROUND. VICTIM WAS KILLED.
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Where Cargill Fertilizer, LLC 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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