Employee was working approximately 550' down in elevator shaft, working off top of elevator. Beam came loose that was thought to be secured. Employee fell from top of elevator to bottom of shaft, resulting in his death.
Tennessee Zinc Company LLCController
MSHA Controller ID: 0061709
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 76
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 2006–2009
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 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- James E Trent2fatal79 total
- Donald Nicewonder1fatal75 total
- Gene L McGregor1fatal74 total
- William Swift1fatal78 total
- Tennessee Zinc Company LLCthis controller1fatal76 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 17 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS22 non-fatal
- HOISTING11 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE8 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)7 non-fatal
- OTHER2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2009
8
2008
36
2007
27 (1f)
2006
5
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedFall down raise, shaft or manway