Struck by falling object
Fall of the roof or back resulting in a fatal injury.
Small Mine Development LLCOperator
Controlled by Keith Jones
MSHA Operator ID: L12820
- Fatalities
- 5
- Total incidents
- 92
- Mines on record
- 14
- Years on record
- 2000–2023
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 97% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
5
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Small Mine Development, LLCthis operator5fatal92 total
- Southern MN Construction2fatal95 total
- Knife River North Central1fatal92 total
- INMET Mining, LLC.1fatal91 total
- Bayer Construction Company, Inc.1fatal89 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK3 fatalities · 4 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 15 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 11 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS28 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON17 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)5 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2023
1
2022
4
2021
1
2020
5
2019
1
2018
3 (1f)
2017
1
2016
3
2015
6 (1f)
2014
2
2013
3
2012
5
2011
5
2010
6
2009
6
2008
7 (2f)
2007
7 (1f)
2006
6
2005
1
2004
3
2003
2
2002
3
2001
5
2000
6
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
5 recordedStruck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was operating a jumbo on an incline in the main haulage. The operator drifted to the right rib and the spare drill steel in the drill steel rack came in contact with the right rib. The drill steel gained pressure breaking the drill steel rack striking employee with the drill steel in the head causing a fatal blow.
Struck by falling object
While repairing hydraulic hose on bolter backfill fell in striking employee.
Caught 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.