Mining Incidents

Chevron CorporationController

MSHA Controller ID: C00877
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.

Fatality-count percentile
86th

More recorded fatalities than 86% of controllers on file.

Rank
#68of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
3
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

  • 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

2015
7
2014
2
2013
11 (1f)
2012
19
2011
37
2010
43
2009
57
2008
59
2007
75 (1f)
2006
69
2005
74 (1f)
2004
76
2003
47
2002
54
2001
58
2000
72

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

3 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Around 1:30 in the morning a miner was found pinned between two rail cars on the haulage level.

Fall from ladders

EE 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*

Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

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.