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U S Silver CorporationController

MSHA Controller ID: 0061031
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
227
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2006–2012

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
#279of 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

  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 28 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS60 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON27 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY25 non-fatal
  • HOISTING22 non-fatal
  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL17 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2012
46
2011
34
2010
46 (1f)
2009
25
2008
33
2007
24
2006
19

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
U.S. Silver-Idaho, Inc.
Struck by falling object

Employee was barring down in raise, when a slab fell and crushed employee.