For unexplained reasons, the miner gained access to a secondary road, adjacent from where he was instructed to do road maintenance. Miner removed berm and came too close to road edge, loosing control of equipment and falling through a steep slope, rolling over with the machine. This resulted in miners death. Miner was not wearing seat belt.
Melba Figueroa; Edgar FigueroaController
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 83
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
- Michels Corporation2fatal87 total
- Melba Figueroa; Edgar Figueroathis controller2fatal83 total
- Glencore International A G1fatal82 total
- W Scott McGeorge1fatal82 total
- Eucon Corporation1fatal86 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON27 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS25 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)11 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL3 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedA FATA ACCIDENT ACCOURED IN THE BC-03 PRIMARY CRUSHER AREA. THE GEHL MODEL 3825 SKID STEER LOADER OPEARTOR WAS PINNED BETWEEN THE BUCKET ARM AND FRONT FRAME CRUSHIG HIS HEAD.