Struck by falling object
Employee was conducting ground control measures when a rock fell striking the employee while high scaling.
Nyrstar NVController
MSHA Controller ID: 0086813
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 437
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2009–2025
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 86% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
3
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Nyrstar NVthis controller3fatal437 total
- Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc2fatal435 total
- Iracoal Incorporated2fatal431 total
- Energy Future Holdings Corporation1fatal435 total
- Oil Dri Corporation Of America1fatal443 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 HAULAGE1 fatality · 63 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 16 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 11 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS113 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON91 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)45 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
1
2023
6
2022
22
2021
31 (3f)
2020
17
2019
29
2018
19
2017
11
2016
18
2015
24
2014
42
2013
54
2012
55
2011
60
2010
43
2009
5
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A group solely comprised of RWS contractors [MSHA Contractor ID B5045] was working in the mine. A pump sitting on a trailer was moved by RWS contractors by a telehandler, without notification to Nyrstar. RWS hitched the trailer to their telehandler. RWS pulled the trailer up a ramp. The trailer hitch broke. An individual RWS EE traveling on foot behind the trailer was struck
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A rail haulage offsider was riding back to the chute to get another load when the locomotive over traveled into the chute causing fatal injuries to the offsider rail employee.