Mining Incidents
Search Operators Mines Alerts Research Controllers About
English Español
← All operators

Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc operator

Controlled by Freeport-McMoRan Inc
MSHA operator ID: 0073264

Watch this operator

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc mine.

Fatalities
2
Total incidents
475
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2006–2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
811
citations
149
significant & substantial
$557,606
proposed penalties
$529,855
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2026
11
2025
34
2024
29
2023
41
2022
30
2021
34
2020
28
2019
31
2018
29
2017
16
2016
27 (1f)
2015
9
2014
8
2013
22
2012
27
2011
13
2010
14
2009
19
2008
26
2007
25 (1f)
2006
2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
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.