Struck by powered moving object
The victim was fatally injured when ejected from the operator's compartment of a diesel scoop after the scoop was struck by a locomotive that had lost control of a trip of supplies along the 41 Butt track haulage.
Alliance Resource Partners LPController
MSHA Controller ID: C15455
- Fatalities
- 34
- Total incidents
- 8,137
- Mines on record
- 33
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 100% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
34
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Alliance Resource Partners LPthis controller34fatal8,137 total
- CONSOL Energy Inc32fatal7,548 total
- Robert E Murray19fatal7,836 total
- Peabody Energy Corporation18fatal7,184 total
- Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.16fatal6,829 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 HAULAGE2 fatalities · 83 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 157 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS322 non-fatal
- MACHINERY135 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON106 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)85 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
54
2025
228 (1f)
2024
242
2023
302 (1f)
2022
174 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
34 recordedStruck by falling object
The fatally injured miner and co-workers were in the process of building cribs during recovery of a longwall shield when unconsolidated rocks fell through the roof mesh and struck the miner.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A miner was fatally injured when the supply car on which they were sitting was struck by a locomotive, causing them to fall where they were crushed between the coupler and deck of the supply car.