Freeport McMoRan Corporation · Contact with electrical current
EMPLOYEE CONTACTED AN ENERGIZED 2300 VOLT BARE CONDUCTOR & WAS ELECTROCUATED
Freeport McMoRan Corporation: 2 recorded fatalities operator
Controlled by
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
MSHA operator ID: L00442
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
37
citations
1
significant & substantial
$4,199
proposed penalties
$4,199
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
66
inspections on record
1,191
inspection hours
3.1
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.37 citations across 1,191 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.$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
35 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-11-26.
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.2.7%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
2.7%
reasonably likely or greater
35.1%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 10.8% low, 89.2% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2025
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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.0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2024 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2022 * | 6.53 | 6.53 | 0.000 |
| 2021 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2020 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2019 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2018 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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: 2022-09-29, 3 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.0%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
8
samples
1
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg7
- Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz1
Area samples (mill and shop air)
Last sampled: 2010-08-18, 16 years ago2
samples
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.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 58 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 42 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 33 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 28 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2022
1
2015
1
2012
1
2011
3
2010
4
2005
1
2004
2
2003
1
2000
1
1999
1
1996
1
1994
1
1993
1
1992
1
1991
8
1990
6 (1f)
1989
2
1988
5
1987
12 (1f)
1986
19
1985
10
1984
74
1983
35
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recorded
January 3, 1987
AZ · Metal/Non-Metal
motorman, motor person, swamper, switchman, locomotive operator
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Phelps Dodge Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
I.NAME WAS IN T2E PROCESS OF UNLOADING HIS BOTTOM DUMP RAIL CARS AT THE METCALF HOPPER WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS, ONE OF THE CARS TURNED OVER ON ITS SIDE AND I.NAME WAS FOUND LAYING UNDERNEATH IT 3
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Where Freeport McMoRan Corporation 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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