Mining Incidents

Freeport McMoRan Miami IncMining Incidents in 2023

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Freeport McMoRan Miami Inc operations in 2023. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2023
0
Total incidents
6
Year
2023

Top incident classifications

  1. 01HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 incidents
  2. 02SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 incidents
  3. 03HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 incident

All incidents in 2023

Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was walking on the stripper platform and turned to walk the other direction, when EE did EE felt a pop in the left knee.

Struck by falling object

Blanks hanging from a crane hook slipped off, employee placed their hand near the load to fix it and a blank fell striking the employee's hand.

Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was lifting a blank sheet off of the end of the stripping machine. Initially felt no pain until the next day, reported it 10/31/23.

Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Lifting/Pushing/Pulling repetitive motion, employee was stripping copper in the tankhouse.

Caught in, under or between two or more moving objects

Employees pulling bars from cathode cells, injured employee's index finger was smashed as employee was pulling a bar and the adjacent bar was struck with a hammer by a co-worker. The employee's finger was smashed between the two bars resulting in a fracture.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Muddy conditions, employee slipped while loading drill steel and employee's pinky finger was smashed between truck bed and steel.

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Freeport McMoRan Miami Inc's numeric MSHA operator ID.