Mining Incidents

Martin Marietta Materials Inc. Plant #5 Metal/Non-Metal

Denham Springs, St Helena County, LA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1601406

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2005–2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
5
citations
2
significant & substantial
$10,037
proposed penalties
$10,037
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 2 2
2007 Q1 10,187 1 0 98.2
2006 Q3 0 1 0
2006 Q2 8,901 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
March 30, 2007 LA · Metal/Non-Metal barge/boat/dredge/towbarge/towboat/leach operator, riverman, deck hand Fatality · OTHER

Cause of accident is unknown at this time. Employee was working on a winch on a dredge boat and was found drowned behind the boat some time afterwards.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2005 · 1 incident

October 10, 2005 LA · Metal/Non-Metal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee driving loader on levee not fully formed. The levee collapsed turning loader over on side. EMS was called but employee refused treatment stating he was fine. He worked the remainder of that week and took vacation the following week. On 10/24 he missed work saying that he was indeed injured. At this point the incident became a lost time accident and then became reportable.