Contact with electrical current
Contributing Factors: (1)Energized equipment. (2)EE failure to follow company LO/TO procedures. (3)Outer wire jacket showed signs of heating & cooling. (4)EE grabbed the live ""C"" phase wire.
Newpark Resources IncController
MSHA Controller ID: M01658
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 100
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 2000–2022
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
- Doug Dalton2fatal98 total
- Newpark Resources Incthis controller2fatal100 total
- Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd1fatal100 total
- Peter DePaul Irrevocable Combined Trust1fatal102 total
- Industrial Minerals Group LLC1fatal102 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 · 6 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS36 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON21 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)13 non-fatal
- MACHINERY11 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2022
1
2021
3
2020
1 (1f)
2019
1
2018
6
2017
3
2016
1
2015
1
2014
4
2013
5
2012
2
2011
2
2010
2
2009
6
2008
9
2007
6
2006
3
2005
12
2004
9
2003
6
2002
3
2001
7
2000
7 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
STOCKPILING ORE AT MILL SITE STOCKPILE AREA. DUMP TRUCK DUMPED HIS LOAD ON STOCKPILE AND BEGAN TO PULL AWAY FROM PILE. WHILE SLOWING PULLING FORWARD AND BEGGINING TO TURN TO THE RIGHT, THE HAU L TRUCK RAN OVER A DOZER OPERATOR WHO WAS IN FRONT OF DUMP TRUCK THE INJURY WAS FATAL.