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.
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.
More recorded fatalities than 99% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
32
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Alliance Resource Partners LP34fatal8,137 total
- CONSOL Energy Incthis controller32fatal7,548 total
- Robert E Murray19fatal7,836 total
- Peabody Energy Corporation18fatal7,184 total
- Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.16fatal6,829 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 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 recordedStruck by rolling or sliding object