Struck against a moving object
Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.
Charles C UngureanController
MSHA Controller ID: C04381
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 261
- Mines on record
- 30
- 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 92% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
4
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Charles C Ungureanthis controller4fatal261 total
- ArcelorMittal USA LLC2fatal256 total
- Thomas A Laurita; James L Laurita Jr1fatal262 total
- Mitsubishi Corp1fatal259 total
- Charles S Luck IV1fatal254 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
- MACHINERY2 fatalities · 24 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 18 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON80 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS60 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)24 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK16 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
2 (1f)
2024
2
2023
2
2022
2
2021
4 (1f)
2020
2
2019
19
2014
9
2013
17
2012
14
2011
20 (1f)
2010
28
2009
25
2008
4
2007
18
2006
12
2005
30 (1f)
2004
28
2003
12
2002
4
2001
5
2000
2
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- CCU Halls Creek MineKY
- Jessup MineKY
- Island DockKY
- K O MineKY
- Schoate Preparation PlantKY
- Rose France MineKY
- CCU Belmont StripOH
- CCU Bellaire DockOH
- CCU Barb Coal TippleOH
- Rice #2 (Strip)OH
- CCU Conesville Wash PlantOH
- Lisbon MineOH
- CCU Tuscarawas StripOH
- Coshocton StripOH
- CCU Stark StripOH
- Oxford Mining #2OH
- CCU Perry StripOH
- Standing Stone MineOH
- CCU Harrison StripOH
- Oxford Auger No 1OH
- CCU Patterson StripOH
- TuskyOH
- Buckingham MineOH
- Oxford Contract Auger # 3- No.12OH
- Buckingham MineOH
- Dairy Jean MineOH
- CCU Sexton StripOH
- Oxford Beagle ClubOH
- CCU Athens StripOH
- Crosscreek MineWV
Fatalities under this controller
4 recordedStruck by falling object
Employee was working on removing a pin from a leveling cylinder on the back of the rock truck. While the employee was performing this work, the haul truck bed fell on top of the employee.
Struck against stationary object
EE was shoving top soil away from the highwall. He backed up over and through an 8 foot berm that had been constructed at the edge of the highwall. The dozer went over the wall rolling over and throwing him out of the cab.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Shuttle car operator stopped to talk to the shuttle car operator in the crosscut behind him. Scoop operator in crosscut in front proceeded to cross in front of shuttle car. Shuttle car operator proceeded with the buggy towards the feeder running over the scoop operator in front of him.