To be eligible for the eight Sentinels of Safety awards, a mine in the U.S. must have accrued at least 30,000 injury-free hours in a given year. Far exceeding that total in 1993 was the Cyprus Sierrita operation (open-pit category) of Cyprus Amax Minerals in Arizona with 741,966 hours.
Other winners last year of the Sentinels competition, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and the American Mining Congress (AMC), were: * surface coal — Trapper mine, Trapper Mining, Colorado
* underground coal — Mine 4A-No. 2 portal, D&K Coal, West Virginia * underground metal — Sweetwater unit, Asarco, Missouri
* underground non-metal — Oakfield mine, U.S. Gypsum, New York * quarry — FEC, Rinker Materials, Florida
* bank or pit (sand and gravel) — Arena plant, Pioneer Concrete, Texas * dredge (sand and gravel) — Bridgeburg Dredge and Mill, Glacial Sand & Gravel, Pennsylvania.
AMC President John Knebel said the overall rate of accidental injuries decreased last year from 1992 and that the number of mining fatalities was the second-lowest in history.
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