Mining Incidents

Black Hills CorpController

MSHA Controller ID: C03845
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
58
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2000–2024

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
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#396of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
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 HAULAGE1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS19 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY8 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON7 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)5 non-fatal
  • FIRE4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2024
1
2023
1
2022
1
2021
2
2019
2
2018
2
2012
5
2011
1
2010
9
2009
8
2008
5 (1f)
2007
7
2006
1
2005
2
2004
1
2003
2
2002
3
2001
2
2000
3

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

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

Employee received fatal crushing injuries while operating haul truck, parked in line waiting to be loaded at the shovel. The employee exited the cab and was standing behind the cab, between the cab and air receiver tank when the truck in front started to move in reverse, pinning the employee.