Mining Incidents

Syar Industries IncOperator

Controlled by James M Syar
MSHA Operator ID: L01976
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
223
Mines on record
7
Years on record
2000–2021

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#372of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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.

For counsel + compliance teams

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Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 16 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS66 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON38 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY36 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)28 non-fatal
  • OTHER18 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2021
4
2020
7
2019
4
2018
4
2017
3
2016
7
2015
3
2014
2
2013
3
2012
7
2011
3
2010
6
2009
5
2008
6 (1f)
2007
8
2006
10
2005
14
2004
34
2003
28
2002
28
2001
18
2000
19

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Struck against a moving object

EE was backing up on stockpile to dump loaed 775D rock truck on oneway stockpile. Rock & truck backed over end of stockpile. Truck flipped over backwards and landed upside down about 30' below. No damage to cab, employee suffered fatal blunt force trauma.