Employee was assisting in installing a discharge line from a pump when Employee did not respond to verbal calls, Supervisor went to check and found Employee face down and unresponsive.
Cleveland-Cliffs IncController
MSHA Controller ID: M00106
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 1,614
- Mines on record
- 26
- Years on record
- 2007–2026
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 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
- Barrick Gold Corp11fatal1,682 total
- Vulcan Materials Company9fatal1,658 total
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc7fatal1,585 total
- Cleveland-Cliffs Incthis controller2fatal1,614 total
- Imerys S A1fatal1,582 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
- OTHER1 fatality · 25 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS311 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON167 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)131 non-fatal
- MACHINERY103 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE68 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
13
2025
39
2024
55
2023
60 (1f)
2022
53
2021
78
2020
40
2019
55
2018
52
2017
34
2016
22
2015
64
2014
114
2013
167
2012
154
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Oak Grove Preparation PlantAL
- Oak Grove MineAL
- Tilden MineMI
- Northshore Mining CompanyMN
- Northshore Mining CompanyMN
- Minorca MineMN
- United - MineMN
- United PlantMN
- Virginia Point No. 1 Surface MineVA
- Pinnacle MineWV
- Saunders Preparation PlantWV
- Eckman LoadoutWV
- Ranger Fuel Preparation PlantWV
- Eckman Surface MineWV
- Toney Fork Surface MineWV
- Powellton #1 MineWV
- Mine No. 39WV
- Dingess Chilton MineWV
- Lower War EagleWV
- Eckman PlantWV
- Dry Branch Surface MineWV
- Mine No. 43WV
- MINE NO. 44WV
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedDrowning