Mining Incidents

Melba Figueroa; Edgar FigueroaController

MSHA Controller ID: M09052
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.

Fatality-count percentile
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of controllers on file.

Rank
#87of 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

  • 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

2026
1
2025
2
2024
3
2022
2
2021
2
2020
1
2019
2
2018
2
2017
1
2015
1
2014
3
2013
5
2012
1
2011
3
2010
2
2008
4
2007
6 (1f)
2006
6
2005
5
2004
3
2003
6
2002
7
2001
7
2000
8 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

2 recorded
Struck against a moving object

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.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A 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.