Mining Incidents

CSR LtdController

MSHA Controller ID: M08942
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
195
Mines on record
40
Years on record
2000–2003

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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of controllers on file.

Rank
#132of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.0×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
2
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

  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 29 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS64 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON43 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)24 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE17 non-fatal
  • ELECTRICAL4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2003
10
2002
54 (2f)
2001
58
2000
73

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

2 recorded
Drowning

DRIVER OF BULLDOZER WAS WORKING AT EDGE OF LAKE ""PADDING"" THE SLIP FACE FOR THE DRAGLINE USED BY RINKER, WHEN BULLDOZER FELL INTO LAKE RESULTING IN DEATH TO DRIVER.

Struck by falling object

WHILE ASSISTING IN THE INSTALLATION AND WIRING OF AN ELECTRONIC GENERATOR, INSIDE OF A 7820 MARION DRAGLINE, A MECHANIC WAS POSITIONING AN OVERHEAD 10 TON HOIST WEIGHING ABOUT 1160 POUNDS TO LIFT THE GENERATOR ARMATURE IN ORDER TO ALIGN THE BOLT HOLES, WHEN THE HOIST FELL ON THE EMPLOYEE CAUSING FATAL BLUNT TRAUMA.