Teck Cominco American Inc · Struck by falling object
Still under investigation. Fall of ground occurred during bolting cycle in which two employees were involved. One was struck by slab/ground fall, and resulted in fatality.
Teck Cominco American Inc: 1 recorded fatality operator
Controlled by
Teck Resources Limited
MSHA operator ID: 0050148
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
89
citations
17
significant & substantial
$11,928
proposed penalties
$11,788
paid to date
99% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $140 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
43
inspections on record
2,723
inspection hours
3.3
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.89 citations across 2,723 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.$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
86 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
Of $4K in penalties contested before the Commission, $4K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-11-19.
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.19.5%
significant & substantial
4.6%
high negligence or reckless
21.8%
reasonably likely or greater
63.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 48.3% low, 47.1% moderate, 4.6% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
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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.7.31
total case rate
1.12
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 3.30 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 cases per 100 workers.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7.31 | 1.12 | 0.000 |
| 2006 | 4.42 | 1.11 | 0.000 |
| 2005 | 8.46 | 4.83 | 0.000 |
| 2004 | 9.18 | 3.28 | 0.000 |
| 2003 * | 5.47 | 2.73 | 0.000 |
| 2002 * | 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: 2007-11-18, 18 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.10%
of limit-tested samples over the exposure limit
40
samples
30
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Total Carbon,calculated from elemental carbon.52 over
- Total Carbon,TC51 over
- TC as EC @ 35041 over
- TCarbon @ 35041 over
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.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
6
citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
- Settled 6 · 100%
60%
S&S designation survived the contest
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Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.of 5 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
4%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$4K proposed, $4K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2007-05-22. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEST 2007-322M | Settlement | Barbour | 2008 | $2K → $2K |
| WEST 2007-141M | Settlement | Barbour | 2008 | $700 → $560 |
| WEST 2007-492M | Settlement | Manning | 2008 | $572 → $572 |
| WEST 2003-449-M | Dismissal | Manning | 2004 | $104 → $0 |
| WEST 2007-493M | Settlement | Manning | 2008 | $60 → $60 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
- HOISTING 33 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 28 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 16 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 11 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 10 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
22 (1f)
2006
28
2005
24
2004
22
2003
13
2002
8
2001
1
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
1 recordedFor insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Teck Cominco American 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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