Contact with electrical current
The employee was performing routine preventative maintenance on a transformer when EE was fatally electrocuted.
Stillwater Mining CompanyOperator
Controlled by Sibanye Stillwater Limited
MSHA Operator ID: L14843
- Fatalities
- 10
- Total incidents
- 1,854
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 99% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
10
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Stillwater Mining Companythis operator10fatal1,854 total
- Newmont USA Limited9fatal1,962 total
- ASARCO LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company7fatal1,685 total
- Rosebud Mining Company6fatal1,738 total
- Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company LLC1fatal1,820 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 HAULAGE3 fatalities · 79 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 138 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS258 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON134 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK119 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
22 (1f)
2024
42
2023
58 (1f)
2022
37
2021
56 (2f)
2020
66
2019
63
2018
52
2017
41
2016
42
2015
47
2014
61
2013
61
2012
56
2011
55 (1f)
2010
53
2009
53
2008
60
2007
67
2006
6
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
10 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Tangled in drill steel while installing ground support.
Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a fatal incident.
Struck against a moving object
On June 9th, 2021 at 2:00 pm the operator was made aware of a collision underground between a locomotive and a UTV resulting in a Fatal incident.
Struck against stationary object
Employee was operating a 4 yd mucker, MU452, on the 38W Level & was found fatally injured. Investigation is currently in progress.