Contact with electrical current
Employee was welding two pipes together at an elevated location when an apparent electrocution happened. He was working in a confined location and was probably wet with sweat.
Edward A AsburyController
MSHA Controller ID: C03440
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 128
- Mines on record
- 17
- 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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
2
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Texas United Corp2fatal127 total
- Edward A Asburythis controller2fatal128 total
- Jimmie R Ryan1fatal128 total
- BPU Reynolds Inc1fatal128 total
- J Eric Tillirson1fatal128 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 HAULAGE1 fatality · 17 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS29 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK29 non-fatal
- MACHINERY22 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON13 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
4
2024
2
2023
4
2022
1
2021
3
2020
4
2019
4
2018
2
2017
3
2016
5
2015
2
2014
6
2013
6
2012
6
2011
7 (1f)
2010
9
2009
8
2008
9
2007
6
2006
10
2005
4
2004
6 (1f)
2003
7
2002
5
2001
4
2000
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedStruck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A BATTERY POWERED, TRACK MOUNTED MANTRIP. UPON ENTERING THE MINE, THE WHEELS OF THE MANTRIP APPARENTLY LOCKED UP AND THE VEHICLE BECAME OUT OF CONTROL. THE MANTRIP STRUC K A METAL DOOR AND THE DOOR STRUCK THE EMPLOYEE.