Miner was attempting to bring disabled truck down from the upper most harvest area. As he was dumping load, breaks let loose & truck went down uncontrollably. As it came to the next lower level, it hit a berm causing the miner to be ejected through the right hand window & was presumed to have been struck by a part of truck.
Richard VossController
MSHA Controller ID: M38771
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 28
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2002–2025
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
- John D North; Ralph Napier5fatal29 total
- Heyward C Green2fatal27 total
- Wesley D. Burke1fatal28 total
- Charles W Harrison Jr1fatal28 total
- Richard Vossthis controller1fatal28 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY4 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
1
2022
1
2019
1
2017
2
2016
2
2013
3 (1f)
2012
3
2007
1
2006
6
2004
2
2003
5
2002
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)