Struck against a moving object
Employee was transporting material down slope A. Slope A belt shut off on a fault. Upon investigation of cause of fault, employee was discovered at the bottom of slope A.
Coalfield Transport Inc; Foresight Energy/ Murray EnergyController
MSHA Controller ID: 0059869
- Fatalities
- 5
- Total incidents
- 628
- Mines on record
- 4
- Years on record
- 2006–2016
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 94% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
5
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Coalfield Transport Inc; Foresight Energy/ Murray Energythis controller5fatal628 total
- USS Holdings Inc2fatal649 total
- Westmoreland Coal Company1fatal627 total
- Dolese Brothers Company1fatal627 total
- U.S. Steel Canada; Cliffs Natural Resources Inc1fatal610 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
- MACHINERY2 fatalities · 43 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 69 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 21 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 21 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS169 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK134 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2016
36
2015
75 (1f)
2014
98 (1f)
2013
80 (1f)
2012
100
2011
83
2010
50 (1f)
2009
54 (1f)
2008
37
2007
10
2006
5
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
5 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
The victim and another miner were tramming the roof bolter outby down the No.3 entry of tailgate No.1 when the accident occurred. The victim was injured when he was struck by the roof bolter as he placed himself between the coal rib and the roof bolter.
Struck by falling object
Employee was shoveling coal into the Longwall pan line. A piece of coal fell from the face striking the employee. Employee was standing under shield #123 on the Longwall face at the time of the accident.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was struck when a stair stringer, secure in 4 locations, inadvertently released, striking employee in the chest area, thereby forcing him into a Genie manlift located approximately 8-10 feet from the point of contact with the stair stringer.
Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms
A piece of grating had been moved to insert a piece of pipe. Employee stepped in hole in grating and fell 38' down the shaft. Injury was fatal.