Struck by powered moving object
While doing general work in the section employee was struck by a shuttle car and received crushing injuries to their upper torso.
JAZ Ventures LPController
MSHA Controller ID: 0101285
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 152
- Mines on record
- 4
- Years on record
- 2012–2026
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 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
- JAZ Ventures LPthis controller3fatal152 total
- Cleveland Cliffs Inc; Laiwu Steel2fatal154 total
- Hycroft Mining Corporation1fatal151 total
- Energy Coal Resources Inc1fatal151 total
- Robert E Ellis1fatal153 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 · 19 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 13 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS54 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK24 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)22 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
3
2025
4
2024
13
2023
13 (1f)
2022
11 (1f)
2021
12
2020
14
2019
17
2018
14
2017
8
2016
1
2015
11 (1f)
2014
12
2013
13
2012
6
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedStruck by falling object
In the Main A section, number 5 entry in the intersection of crosscut 139 at station spad #2994. While walking past a rib, a rock measuring approximately 5'x2'x18"" fell out striking the victim.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Miner Operator was tramming into cut. When he positioned the miner onto sights, the mining machine was on a knuckle on the bottom causing it to swing in his direction, pinning him against the rib with the tail of the mining machine.