Mining Incidents

China Minmetals; BPU AssociatesController

MSHA Controller ID: 0056149
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
164
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2004–2007

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#176of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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 · 17 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS60 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON42 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)28 non-fatal
  • OTHER4 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT3 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2007
30
2006
45
2005
63
2004
26 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

CO. MIS-JUDGED AMOUNT OF MILKY LIME IN TANK. 12/8 THEY REMOVED TANK DOOR & HARD SCALE FORMED OVER DOOR. CO. CONTACTED ONYX TO CUT SCALE AT BASE TO REMOVE WHAT CO. SAID WAS 2-3 FT OF LIQUID. ONYX USED HIGH PRESSURE WATER TO CUT INTO SCALE. ONCE TECH STARTED, SCALE GAVE WAY & TECH WAS TRAPPED UNDER LIQUIDE THAT CAME OUT. MORE LIQUID WAS IN TANK THAN THOUGHT. CO DID NOT SOUND TANK.