EE was backing up on stockpile to dump loaed 775D rock truck on oneway stockpile. Rock & truck backed over end of stockpile. Truck flipped over backwards and landed upside down about 30' below. No damage to cab, employee suffered fatal blunt force trauma.
James M SyarController
MSHA Controller ID: M01777
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 223
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000–2021
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 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Andalex Resources B V3fatal219 total
- The Heritage Group2fatal220 total
- Rainbow Trout Coal LLC1fatal223 total
- Brent K Bilsland1fatal224 total
- James M Syarthis controller1fatal223 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 · 16 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS66 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON38 non-fatal
- MACHINERY36 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)28 non-fatal
- OTHER18 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2021
4
2020
7
2019
4
2018
4
2017
3
2016
7
2015
3
2014
2
2013
3
2012
7
2011
3
2010
6
2009
5
2008
6 (1f)
2007
8
2006
10
2005
14
2004
34
2003
28
2002
28
2001
18
2000
19
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck against a moving object