Mining Incidents

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#376of 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

  • 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 recorded
Fall down raise, shaft or manway

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.