Injured employee sustained fatal injuries resulting from head trauma after jumping or being thrown from the lead locomotive of a supply trip at crosscut 16 on east mains track.
Oak Grove Resources LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 481
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2003–2019
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- TXI (A/K/A Texas Industries Inc)4fatal482 total
- Calmat Company3fatal490 total
- Oak Grove Resources LLCthis operator3fatal481 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc2fatal472 total
- Hecla Limited2fatal492 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators 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.
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 46 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 28 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS147 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON111 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)51 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK22 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedDuring Longwall setup procedures, two service representatives from shield manufacturer were installing yield valves on shields. The deceased was positioned behind leg jacks installing yield valves on tilt jack, while second representative began to install yield valves on leg jack. Plugs from both jacks were removed causing the shield canopy to collapse crushing the victim.
employee was caught between two pieces of equipment resulting in fatal injuries