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Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Rio Tinto Group

MSHA operator ID: L00437

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 143
Mines on record: 9
Years on record: 1983–1986

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality · 12 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 50 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 36 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 23 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 9 non-fatal
OTHER 4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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1983

47 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

January 28, 1983 PA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · MACHINERY

Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp · Struck by falling object

WHILE FLOYD USOFF WAS CUTTING FIREWOOD FROM SLASH TIMBER LYING ON THE GROUND, A LIMB FELL, STRIKING AND KILLING MR. USOFF. THE LIMB WAS 16\ LONG AND 8" IN DIAMETER. MR. USOFF WAS USING HIS OWN CHAIN SAW AND CUTTING THE WOOD FORHIS PERSONASL USE DURING WORKING HOURS, IN VIOLATION OF COMPANY POLICY.

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Where Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp 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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