Struck by falling object
Excavator was working in Redwine pit, highwall collapsed causing rock to fall on excavator. This caused a fatal injury to operator.
Wesley D. BurkeController
MSHA Controller ID: C05819
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 28
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 2000–2011
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
- John D North; Ralph Napier5fatal29 total
- Heyward C Green2fatal27 total
- Charles W Harrison Jr1fatal28 total
- Richard Voss1fatal28 total
- Wesley D. Burkethis controller1fatal28 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
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality
- MACHINERY10 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS7 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON5 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
- FIRE1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2011
2 (1f)
2009
2
2008
1
2006
1
2005
3
2004
2
2003
3
2002
4
2001
5
2000
5