Mining Incidents

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#477of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
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

  • 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 recorded
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

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.