Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings
Employee was cleaning rock dust bin #2 from inside of bin #2; material on sides of bin #2 collapsed, engulfing employee; causing his death.
Steve L LawsonController
MSHA Controller ID: M09788
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 21
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2001–2005
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 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- George R Beener2fatal21 total
- Patsy H Fell-Barker2fatal22 total
- Pro Frac Holding Corp1fatal21 total
- Nyrstar Netherlands Holdings B.V.1fatal21 total
- Steve L Lawsonthis controller1fatal21 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 MATERIALS1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS9 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON6 non-fatal
- MACHINERY2 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2005
7 (1f)
2004
5
2003
1
2002
3
2001
5