Mining Incidents

CONSOL Energy IncController

MSHA Controller ID: C00692
Fatalities
32
Total incidents
7,548
Mines on record
78
Years on record
2000–2025

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.

Fatality-count percentile
99th

More recorded fatalities than 99% of controllers on file.

Rank
#3of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
15.7×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
32
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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 FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 26 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS244 non-fatal
  • HOISTING154 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK143 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON111 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY88 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
3
2024
119
2023
106
2022
90
2021
106
2020
76
2019
133 (1f)
2018
157
2017
144
2016
66

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

32 recorded
Struck by rolling or sliding object

The employee was walking off the face at the G1HG longwall section. As employee passed the head gate drive, the previously bolted and meshed rib unexpectedly failed and the material struck employee resulting crushing type injuries.