Struck by falling object
Miner was working in the 3200-033 raise. EE was bolting the hanging wall. A large wedge slipped off the wall and pinned the Miner to the foot wall causing fatal crushing injuries.
Americas Gold and Silver CorporationController
MSHA Controller ID: 0151001
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 146
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2019–2026
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 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- CCI (Clyde Companies Inc)2fatal149 total
- Walt Miles1fatal148 total
- Vecellio Group Inc1fatal150 total
- Hycroft Mining Corporation1fatal151 total
- Americas Gold and Silver Corporationthis controller1fatal146 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 15 non-fatal
- HOISTING31 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS31 non-fatal
- MACHINERY19 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON19 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)8 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
4
2025
19
2024
21
2023
19 (1f)
2022
15
2021
25
2020
31
2019
12