Preliminary investigation shows that the employee was fatally injured as the result of a collision with another haul truck. Investigation is ongoing. EE slid backwards and striking the cab of a parked Caterpillar 795 haul truck on the drivers side.
Barrick Gold CorpController
- Fatalities
- 11
- Total incidents
- 1,682
- 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.
More recorded fatalities than 97% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
- Barrick Gold Corpthis controller11fatal1,682 total
- Vulcan Materials Company9fatal1,658 total
- Grupo Mexico S A B de C V7fatal1,687 total
- J Clifford Forrest III6fatal1,742 total
- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc2fatal1,614 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
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS2 fatalities · 4 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 86 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS331 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON168 non-fatal
- MACHINERY96 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)77 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
11 recordedInitial investigation indicates that a 2 ft diameter pipe that carries aggregate to the mine backfill plant broke loose and struck the hoist cage.
Initial investigation indicates that a 2 ft diameter pipe that carries aggregate to the mine backfill plant broke loose and struck the hoist cage.