Mining Incidents

Rosebud Mining CompanyOperator

Controlled by J Clifford Forrest III
MSHA Operator ID: P09635
Fatalities
6
Total incidents
1,738
Mines on record
58
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.

Fatality-count percentile
97th

More recorded fatalities than 97% of operators on file.

Rank
#18of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
3.7×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
6
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.

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Top causes

  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 fatalities · 159 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 67 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS354 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY111 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON81 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)77 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
13
2025
51
2024
53
2023
57
2022
72
2021
68 (1f)
2020
42
2019
64
2018
53 (1f)
2017
58
2016
30
2015
72 (1f)
2014
102
2013
101
2012
126
2011
38

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

6 recorded
Struck by falling object

A continuous miner operator was mining in the number one entry when employee was struck by a rock in by permanent roof supports. This resulted in a fatality.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The CM had backed out of the number one entry and began tramming to the number two entry when ee noticed the front MBC on the attached system did not pull ahead. At that time, the victim was found at the MBC suffering from crushing injuries. This resulted in a fatality.

Struck by falling object

On February 20, 2015, a fatal accident occurred in the #2 slope entry of the A Mains, MMU 001. The roof bolter operator received crushing injuries during the bolting process.