The employee was connecting a chain around the bumper of a tractor to a road grader when the grader rolled back and pinned him between to bumper of the tractor and Grader.
James H BoothController
MSHA Controller ID: C11194
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 1,342
- Mines on record
- 74
- Years on record
- 2000–2020
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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
2
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Holcim Ltd9fatal1,373 total
- Texas Industries Inc6fatal1,290 total
- Lhoist Group6fatal1,285 total
- Drummond Company Inc3fatal1,402 total
- James H Booththis controller2fatal1,342 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 · 120 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 79 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS291 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON188 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK140 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)95 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2020
6
2019
20
2018
33
2017
37
2016
63
2015
68 (1f)
2014
52
2013
85
2012
104
2011
81 (1f)
2010
84
2009
99
2008
76
2007
94
2006
98
Operators under this controller
- Matrix Energy LLC291
- Argus Energy WV LLC236
- Eagle Coal Company Inc107
- Apex Energy Inc80
- Pinnacle Processing Inc75
- Coalburg Enterprises Inc52
- Southeastern Land, LLC.42
- Mayo Resources Inc41
- Clintwood Elkhorn Mining LLC22
- Premier Elkhorn Coal Company, LLC16
- Long Fork Development Inc.16
- Beech Fork Processing LLC14
- C W Augering Inc8
Mines on record
- Pevler PlantKY
- No. 21KY
- Burke Branch TippleKY
- No. 22KY
- CE#2KY
- No. 4KY
- CE#6 Burke LoadoutKY
- Prep Plant # 1KY
- Bucky Ridge Surface MineKY
- 67-C Daniels CreekKY
- CE#5 LoadoutKY
- CE#4 LoadoutKY
- First Fork Surface MineKY
- Prep Plant #2KY
- No 2KY
- Bevins Branch SurfaceKY
- No 18KY
- No 4KY
- #5KY
- No. 1KY
- No. 19KY
- No 6KY
- #9 MINERVA
- No. 7KY
- No 20KY
- Colley Fork Surface MineKY
- Job #49KY
- No 23KY
- Job #59 Pond Knob SurfaceKY
- No 24KY
- Persimmon Branch Surface MineKY
- No. 25KY
- No. 8KY
- NO 7KY
- Chisholm South Surface MineKY
- #6KY
- No. 7KY
- HWM#1WV
- Allen Branch Surface MineKY
- No.4KY
- Long Fork Surface MineKY
- CE#3VA
- Laurel Branch SurfaceVA
- Piney Branch Surface MineVA
- MILLER CREEK PREP. PLANTWV
- Minway No. 1WV
- Wayne County River TerminalWV
- KIAH CREEK PREPARATION PLANTWV
- Fola Surface Mine No 2WV
- Copley Trace Surface MineWV
- Deep Mine No 7WV
- Deep Mine No 8WV
- TWIN BRANCH NO 1 SURFACEWV
- Mine No. 5WV
- Coalburg MineWV
- #57 MinerKY
- No. 10WV
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Setting miner up to take first cut of coal when he became pinched between miner boom and rib.