Mining Incidents

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian CommunityController

MSHA Controller ID: M06003
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
554
Mines on record
19
Years on record
2000–2025

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#549of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 65 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS202 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON84 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)84 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE33 non-fatal
  • OTHER27 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
6
2024
13
2023
10
2022
12
2021
13
2020
15 (1f)
2019
10
2018
9
2017
10
2016
8
2015
12
2014
14
2013
11
2012
8
2011
7
2010
6
2009
8
2008
20
2007
28
2006
33
2005
48
2004
57
2003
51
2002
50
2001
55
2000
40

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Drowning

Operator error. Failed to set crane up in digging mode. Employee did not set the travel locks prior to digging.