Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
HE WAS OPERATING THE MINER ON REMOTE CONTROL AND MOVING IT TO START THE CLEAN-UP PROCESS. HE PINNED HIMSELF BETWEEN THE MINER AND THE RIB.
General Dynamics CorpController
MSHA Controller ID: C01339
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 594
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2000–2007
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
- Oglebay Norton Company3fatal586 total
- James C Justice II3fatal605 total
- Coeur Mining, Inc.3fatal577 total
- U.S. Steel Canada; Cliffs Natural Resources Inc1fatal610 total
- General Dynamics Corpthis controller1fatal594 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 36 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK337 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS79 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON69 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)21 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE14 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
49
2006
78
2005
88
2004
61
2003
69 (1f)
2002
88
2001
87
2000
74