Employee was out of their truck and on the pit floor while the 993 (LD270) Loader was being trouble shot trying to find a leaking hose. While walking to their 785 truck the employee traveled under the bucket of the 993 loader and was struck causing severe crushing injuries from their waist down.
Metinvest B VController
- Fatalities
- 8
- Total incidents
- 989
- Mines on record
- 37
- Years on record
- 2009–2026
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 96% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
- Ashland Inc11fatal996 total
- Metinvest B Vthis controller8fatal989 total
- Renco Group4fatal1,022 total
- Rio Tinto Group2fatal1,106 total
- Foresight Energy Labor LLC1fatal863 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
- POWERED HAULAGE5 fatalities · 76 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 209 non-fatal
- HOISTING1 fatality · 116 non-fatal
- OTHER1 fatality · 20 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS176 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON96 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Advantage #1KY
- Sapphire Prep PlantKY
- Sandlick IIKY
- Feds Creek SurfaceKY
- Grapevine MineKY
- UZ No. 2KY
- Paw Paw 2KY
- ApolloVA
- #7 Prep PlantVA
- Wellmore #8 Prep PlantVA
- Paw Paw MineVA
- Buckeye Br.VA
- Locust ThicketVA
- Conaway Creek Deep MineVA
- Jones ForkVA
- HackneyVA
- Huffman Fk.VA
- 3 PoleVA
- Middle Fork HagyVA
- Hackney Creek HagyVA
- Surface Mine No. 1VA
- TilleyVA
- Elk Creek SurfaceVA
- Airport SurfaceVA
- PAW PAW 2 SOUTHVA
- Star Bridge Preparation Plant-Rail LoadWV
- Josephine No 2 MineWV
- Pleasant Hill MineWV
- Josephine No 3 MineWV
- Morgan Camp MineWV
- East Gulf Preparation PlantWV
- AFFINITY MINEWV
- Affinity Preparation PlantWV
- Pocahontas Highwall MineWV
- Beckley No. 1 MineWV
- Hartridge Surface MineWV
- Wyco Surface MineWV
Fatalities under this controller
8 recordedThe sub-contractor was found unconscious in EE's vehicle by EE's co-worker. The car was locked, co-worker attempted to wake EE. Co-worker called 911, then got mine superintendent, who came to the scene, broke the window, removed EE from EE's car, and started CPR. EE was then pronounced deceased at the hospital.
Driver was at parked truck (#5 lot) to start pre-shift inspection. Truck started to move. Driver fell under the truck and truck ran over driver's legs from about the knee area down.
Employee, and six other employees, was traveling from the west mains section to the surface at end of their shift on a ten person diesel mantrip when a 50-ton roof jack struck the employee on the right side of the head. Employee was immediately transported to the surface and flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital. Employee passed away on the evening of 6/5/18.
The employee was found unresponsive at approximately 2:05 PM on the offside of the #1 belt at the portal entrance of the surface mine. Preliminary findings has determined the employee received fatal injuries when coming in contact with the belt conveyor.
The shuttle car operator was shoveling the coal rib in the 5-6 crosscut on #3 section at #18 break. This was the 2nd open crosscut outby the face of #6 entry. The scoop operator turned from #6 entry battery first into the crosscut and struck the shuttle car operator. The shuttle car operator sustained fatal injuries.
Scoop operator placed the scoop bucket over the edge of the elevator/hoist to eject a trash insert. Inadvertent movement of the elevator/hoist raised the scoop upward and the scoop operator ended up under the scoop deck suffering fatal injuries.
Employee was operating a remote control continuous miner. He was struck by a rock. He did not survive the injuries.