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.
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.
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
- Ronald W Guill3fatal58 total
- HBM Holdings Company1fatal58 total
- Klondex Mines Ltd1fatal59 total
- Charles E Hamilton; Carroll Hamilton1fatal59 total
- Black Hills Corpthis controller1fatal58 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 · 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 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object