Around 1:30 in the morning a miner was found pinned between two rail cars on the haulage level.
Chevron CorporationController
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 760
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000–2015
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.
- Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company3fatal761 total
- Barrick Nevada Holding LLC; Newmont USA Limited3fatal774 total
- Teck Resources Limited3fatal775 total
- Chevron Corporationthis controller3fatal760 total
- Donald Blankenberger2fatal772 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 · 37 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 111 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS185 non-fatal
- HOISTING114 non-fatal
- MACHINERY76 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)72 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedEE stated he had been to #3 rock bin to inspect the chute of #4 refuse belt. Witness: EE was on the 1st or 2nd step of a small ladder w/backward fall protection when he ""blacked out"".*He slipped from ladder landing on feet & fell on his back*. He never lost consciousness. We are waiting for medical records to determine the cause.*On 12/18/07 he had surgery & he died on 12/19/07*
Employee was discovered by section foreman caught in the pick breaker on the Stamler feeder. He suffered fatal injuries to his lower chest and mid torso.