Struck by flying object
Miner was hit in head by fly rock from blast causing his death.
Wexford Capital LLCController
MSHA Controller ID: 0041669
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 458
- Mines on record
- 35
- Years on record
- 2003–2010
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 86% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
3
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Vicat S A4fatal456 total
- American Electric Power Company Inc4fatal465 total
- Wexford Capital LLCthis controller3fatal458 total
- Rhino Resource Partners LP2fatal464 total
- Usx Corp1fatal467 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 53 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 49 non-fatal
- EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK136 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS91 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON55 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2010
53
2009
85
2008
77
2007
54 (1f)
2006
58 (1f)
2005
72 (1f)
2004
49
2003
10
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Mc Clane Canyon MineCO
- Chapperal PlantKY
- POINT ROCK MINEKY
- Mine #10KY
- Jamboree LoadoutKY
- Rob Fork ProcessingKY
- Mill Creek Prep PlantKY
- #2KY
- Three Mile Mine #1KY
- Mine #15KY
- Gooseneck Branch MineKY
- R F #3 ElkhornKY
- Marion BranchKY
- S-1 Hunts BranchKY
- Mine #22KY
- Mine #23KY
- Deane #1KY
- S-20 Bevins BranchKY
- Mine No 29KY
- Mine #25AKY
- #24KY
- #25KY
- MINE #28KY
- Slate BranchKY
- Mine #30KY
- Rob Fork ContourKY
- Love BranchKY
- S-4 Calloway NorthKY
- Dorton E 3KY
- HOPEDALE MINEOH
- Sands Hill StripOH
- Nelms Mine - Cadiz PortalOH
- Nelms PlantOH
- Eagle #1WV
- GRAPEVINE SOUTH SURFACE MINEWV
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A road grader descended down a haul road backwards and landed against the hillside in a ditch. The operator was found under the ripper at the rear of the machine.
Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Technician was attempting to repair a steering problem on a wheel loader. He replaced steering pilot valve, started engine, raised bucket and attempted to steer machine. When it would not steer to the right, he dismounted machine without shutting off engine. While attempting to remove steering shaft, the steering activated and steered to the right crushing the victim.