Fall from machine
Employee fell from cab of drill when drill tipped over. Employee fell approximately 40 feet from the dab to the next lower bench. Fall resulted in fatal injuries.
Cleveland Cliffs Inc; Laiwu SteelController
MSHA Controller ID: 0042601
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 154
- Mines on record
- 2
- 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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
2
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- JAZ Ventures LP3fatal152 total
- Cleveland Cliffs Inc; Laiwu Steelthis controller2fatal154 total
- Blue Circle Industries Plc1fatal154 total
- Robert E Ellis1fatal153 total
- Hycroft Mining Corporation1fatal151 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 18 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS54 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON30 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)15 non-fatal
- DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)11 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2010
3
2009
29
2008
23
2007
18 (1f)
2006
20 (1f)
2005
31
2004
27
2003
3
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedInhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
Electrical explosion.