Mining Incidents

Magma Copper Company: 7 recorded fatalities operator

MSHA operator ID: L09311

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Fatalities
7
Total incidents
1,785
Mines on record
9
Years on record
1987–1996

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Incident timeline

1996
25
1995
194
1994
222
1993
172 (6f)
1992
168
1991
170
1990
154
1989
218
1988
264
1987
198 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

7 recorded
December 14, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal chute blaster, rockman, hang-up man, raise blaster Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Magma Copper Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS DRAWN INTO THE MUCK FLOW OF A TRANSFER RAISE ENTRAPPED FROM THE WAIST DOWN THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES

November 19, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Magma Copper Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS RERAILING A 20-TON ASEA CAR WHEN HE GOT PINNED BETWEEN THE ORE CAR & THE RIB THE ORE CAR WAS BEING PULLED THROUGH A RE-RAILER THIS INCIDENT RESULTED IN FATAL INJURIES TO EMPLOYEE

August 10, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Magma Copper Company · Struck by falling object

UNDER INVESTIGATION.

August 10, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Magma Copper Company · Struck by falling object

UNDER INVESTIGATION.

August 10, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Magma Copper Company · Struck by falling object

UNDER INVESTIGATION.

August 10, 1993 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal ledgeman/hand, quarry man Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Magma Copper Company · Struck by falling object

UNDER INVESTIGATION.

August 25, 1987 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal chute blaster, rockman, hang-up man, raise blaster Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Magma Copper Company · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OP9RATING AN 8 TON BATTERY MOTOR AND HAD A COLLISION WITH A HAULAGE TRAIN AND RECEIVED MASSIVE CRUSH INJURY TO CHEST. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE

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Where Magma Copper Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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