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Holnam Inc: 6 recorded fatalities operator

Controlled by Holcim Ltd
MSHA operator ID: L10903

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Fatalities
6
Total incidents
2,452
Mines on record
19
Years on record
1983–2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
717
citations
170
significant & substantial
$257,930
proposed penalties
$250,011
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $7,919 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
101
inspections on record
4,752
inspection hours
15.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
717 citations across 4,752 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$258K
proposed penalties
$250K
current assessed
$250K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
712 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
Of $34K in penalties contested before the Commission, $23K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2001-12-19.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘ Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
23.8%
significant & substantial
3.2%
high negligence or reckless
26.9%
reasonably likely or greater
63.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.1% none, 10.5% low, 86.1% moderate, 3.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2001
ⓘ 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.
8.14
total case rate
1.79
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 4.48 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2001 8.14 1.79 0.000
2000 8.41 1.94 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
ⓘ 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)
ⓘ 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: 2001-08-08, 25 years ago
9%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
72
samples
65
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Nuisance dust, total, <1% Qtz33 over
  • Chromium, insoluble22 over
  • Quartz, respirable, >1% Qtz101 over
  • Nuisance dust, respirable, <1% Qtz6
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
ⓘ 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
CENT20010158M Settlement Barbour 2001 $7K → $4K
CENT20000411M Settlement Hodgdon 2001 $6K → $3K
CENT20010080M Settlement Hodgdon 2001 $6K → $4K
CENT20010154M Settlement Barbour 2001 $5K → $5K
CENT20000410M Settlement Hodgdon 2001 $5K → $3K
CENT20000307M Settlement Hodgdon 2000 $4K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2001
166 (1f)
2000
170
1999
166
1998
164 (1f)
1997
159
1996
188 (1f)
1995
163
1994
136 (1f)
1993
180
1992
144 (1f)
1991
179
1990
207
1989
155 (1f)
1988
90
1987
68
1986
54
1985
28
1984
12
1983
23

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

6 recorded
February 26, 2001 CO · Metal/Non-Metal miner, nec Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Holnam Inc · Fall from ladders

ACCORDING TO WITNESS, EMPLOYEE FELL FROM A SCAFFOLD LADDER FROM AN UNKNOWN HEIGHT.

March 13, 1998 MI · Metal/Non-Metal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Holnam Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

IMPROPER PARKING ON SLOPE AND FAILURE TO SET BRAKES

October 29, 1996 SC · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler Fatality · MACHINERY
Holnam Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

THE VICTIM WAS OPEATING A BACKHOE LOADING WASTE FROM A SETTLEMENT POND INTO HAUL TRUCKS WHEN THE BACKHOE SLIPPED INTO THE POND AND TRAPPED THE VICTIM UNDER WATER.

July 27, 1994 CO · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Holnam Inc · Struck by falling object

THE MAN WAS WORKING TO ASSESS AND/OR REMOVEMATERIAL BUILDUP IN A PLUGGED SCREW CONVEYOR LOCATED BENEATH A GAS CONDIITONING SPRAY TOWER. WHILE HE WAS STANDING AT THE OPENING IN THE HOPPER MORE MATERIAL FELL FROM ABOVE INSIDE THE SPRAY TOWER. WHEN IT HIT THE SCREW HOPPER SOME MATERIAL CAME OUT THE OPINING STRIKING THE MAN. THE FORCE PROPELLED HIM ACROSS THE 10' DECK AND TO THE GRO

March 22, 1992 MO · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Holnam Inc · Fall from machine

EMPL OPERATING A 15 TON CAB-OPERATED OVERHEAD CRANE.LIFTING A CASE W-20 ENDLOADER WITH A BRICK-KNOCKER ATTACHMENT. AS THE LOAD WAS BEING MOVED FROM THE 1ST FLOOR TO 2ND FLOOR,THE NORTH END OF OVERHEAD CRANE WHERE THE CAB IS LOCATED,BROKE LOOSE FROM ITS SIDERAIL SUPPORT & FELL 30-35'. EMPL WAS THROWN OUT OF CAB ON IMPACT,PRONOUNCED DEAD AT ACCIDENT SCENE.

September 16, 1989 AL · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Holnam Inc · Contact with hot objects or substances

HOT MATERIAL BROKE LOOSE & RAN OVER STAIRWELL WHERE EMPLOYEE WAS EXITING EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN ASSISTING IN GATHERING EQUIPMENT & WAS STANDING BY BURNS TO AT LEAST 50 % OF BODY

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Where Holnam Inc 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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