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.
Martin Marietta Materials Inc. Plant #5 Metal/Non-Metal
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
· Surface
Controlled by
Martin Marietta Materials Inc
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
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.
· Drowning
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.