Struck by falling object
While repairing hydraulic hose on bolter backfill fell in striking employee.
Ronald W GuillController
MSHA Controller ID: M09829
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 58
- Mines on record
- 13
- Years on record
- 2000–2013
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 86% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
3
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Ronald W Guillthis controller3fatal58 total
- Black Hills Corp1fatal58 total
- HBM Holdings Company1fatal58 total
- Klondex Mines Ltd1fatal59 total
- Charles E Hamilton; Carroll Hamilton1fatal59 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 fatalities · 3 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 7 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS17 non-fatal
- MACHINERY10 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON9 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2013
3
2012
1
2011
2
2010
6
2009
6
2008
7 (2f)
2007
7 (1f)
2006
6
2005
1
2004
3
2003
2
2002
3
2001
5
2000
6
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was walking behind haul truck when truck backed over him.
Struck by falling object
While bolting in the face the left rib failed back from the face and buried the operator.