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Columbia Materials: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Blue Circle Industries Plc

MSHA operator ID: L06249

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 21
Mines on record: 3
Years on record: 1983–1986

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality
POWERED HAULAGE 9 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 5 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 4 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
OTHER 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1986

1985

1984

5 (1f)

1983

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

August 1, 1984 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · MACHINERY

Columbia Materials · Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

I.NAME TOLD TO PUSH HIGH WALL IN AND TO START AT LOW END TO HELP LOADER.LOOKS LIKS LIKE HE WAS STRIPPING AT UNSAFE DISTANCE 1-3\ FROM EDGE OF PIT WALL AND PARALLEL WITH PIT WALL.PART OF WALL C AVED IN CAUSING DOZER TO SLIDE OFF WALL 20\.

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Where Columbia Materials 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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