Mining Incidents

Barrick Gold CorpController

MSHA Controller ID: M06246
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.

Fatality-count percentile
97th

More recorded fatalities than 97% of controllers on file.

Rank
#12of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
5.4×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
11
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

  • 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

2025
1
2024
3
2022
3
2021
2
2019
36
2018
54
2017
64
2016
63
2015
78 (1f)
2014
111
2013
110
2012
119
2011
97
2010
113 (2f)
2009
84
2008
62

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

11 recorded
Struck against a moving object

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.

Struck by falling object

Initial investigation indicates that a 2 ft diameter pipe that carries aggregate to the mine backfill plant broke loose and struck the hoist cage.

Struck by falling object

Initial investigation indicates that a 2 ft diameter pipe that carries aggregate to the mine backfill plant broke loose and struck the hoist cage.