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273,095
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Years on record
2000–2026
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April 9, 2016 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc · Contact with electrical current

Employee went to prime the diaphragm pump located outside the stripping machine building, adjacent to the hydraulic room. Eight minutes pass where EE is unaccounted for prior to being found unresponsive, kneeling in liquid, face against the stainless steel flange of the tank house return HDPE line.

September 14, 2007 AZ · Metal/Non-Metal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc · Contact with electrical current

An electrician that was trouble shooting an installation was electrocuted by a single leg of a 3 phase 4160 volt service.

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