Struck by rolling or sliding object
The individual was struck by a rib roll measuring approximately 20' long X 2' thick X 4 1/2' wide causing crushing injuries.
Cumberland Resources CorporationController
MSHA Controller ID: C07082
- Fatalities
- 5
- Total incidents
- 1,208
- Mines on record
- 30
- Years on record
- 2000–2010
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 94% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
5
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Cumberland Resources Corporationthis controller5fatal1,208 total
- Mosaic Company3fatal1,236 total
- Hanson PLC3fatal1,160 total
- Blackhawk Mining LLC3fatal1,158 total
- Italcementi Spa2fatal1,197 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 ROOF OR BACK3 fatalities · 272 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 67 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS237 non-fatal
- MACHINERY120 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)85 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2010
49
2009
170 (1f)
2008
165 (1f)
2007
131
2006
137
2005
99 (2f)
2004
87
2003
85 (1f)
2002
77
Operators under this controller
- Stillhouse Mining, LLC157
- North Fork Coal Corporation137
- Panther Mining LLC126
- Cave Spur Coal LLC109
- Cloverlick Coal Company LLC102
- Bluff Spur Coal Corporation102
- Mill Branch Coal Corporation62
- Dorchester Enterprises, Inc.46
- Big Laurel Mining Corporation38
- Guest Mountain Mining Corporation36
- Meadow Branch Mining Corporation33
- Osaka Mining Corporation22
- Exeter Coal Corporation19
- Pigeon Creek Processing Corporation9
- High Splint Coal Llc2
Mines on record
- D-14 StillhouseKY
- HighsplintKY
- Jarisa Cave Spur MineKY
- PANTHER MINEKY
- Cloverlick # 1AKY
- Mine No 4KY
- Mine No 5KY
- CVB No 1KY
- Panther Mine #4aKY
- D-8 CloverlickKY
- Mine No 2VA
- PIGEON CREEKVA
- Bluff Spur MineVA
- Mine No 4VA
- Mine No 1VA
- Low Splint No 1 MineVA
- D-10 DorchesterVA
- Mine No 3VA
- North Fork #6VA
- Mine No. 2VA
- Mine No. 1VA
- Guest Mtn. No. 5VA
- OSAKAVA
- Looney Creek Taggart MineVA
- Mine No. 3VA
- Low Splint A MineVA
- Marker Portal MineVA
- Looney Creek Marker MineVA
Fatalities under this controller
5 recordedStruck by falling object
The victim was positioned next to the continuous mining machine operator in the No. 7 Heading of the 1 North (about 95'inby S.S.#597). The final shuttle car was being loaded from the face of the place, when a piece of roof bolted rock measuring about 71"" long X 39"" X 18"" thick fell, striking the victim. The injuries received from the occurance were fatal.
Struck by falling object
Pillar were being mined on the MMU 003-0. Mining had been completed in a block and the continous miner had been moved. The crew was in the process of moving the mobile roof supports from the area when a roof fall occurred in the intersection fatally injuring the vicitm.
Struck by falling object
Pillars were being mined on the mmu-003-0. Mining had been completed in a block and the continuous mining machine had been moved. The crew was in the process of moving the mobile roof supports from the area when a roof fall occurred int he intersection fatally injuring the victim.
Contact with electrical current
THE VICTIM WAS ELECTROCUTED NEAR THE FACE OF NO.8 ENTRY OF THE 001-0 MMU WHILE INSTALLING SUPPLEMENTAL ROOF SUPPORTS. WHEN ANOTHER WORKER FINISHED CUTTING A STEEL BEAM WITH A TORCH, AN ENERGIZ ED TRAILING CABLE WAS DAMAGED CAUSING THE BEAM & TRAILER ON WHICH IT RESTED TO BECOME ENERGIZED. THE VICTIM THEN CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE TRAILER, RESULTING IN ELECTROCUTION.