Contact with electrical current
The employee was performing routine preventative maintenance on a transformer when EE was fatally electrocuted.
Sibanye Stillwater LimitedController
MSHA Controller ID: 0134661
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 426
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2017–2026
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 92% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
4
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Sibanye Stillwater Limitedthis controller4fatal426 total
- Rogers Group Inc3fatal417 total
- Armstrong Energy Inc2fatal429 total
- Iracoal Incorporated2fatal431 total
- Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc2fatal435 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 HAULAGE2 fatalities · 41 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 51 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS85 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON63 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK55 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
22 (1f)
2024
42
2023
58 (1f)
2022
37
2021
56 (2f)
2020
66
2019
63
2018
52
2017
28
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Tangled in drill steel while installing ground support.
Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a fatal incident.
Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a Fatal incident.