ON OCT.7, 2002, A 31 YEAR OLD MINER WAS FATALLY INJURED BY THE FALL OF A SINGLE ROCK/CLAY MASS FROM LOOSE UNCONSOLIDATED MATERIAL LOCATED ABOVE THE HIGHWALL. RAINFALL HAD OCCURRED DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS & WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN HEAVY JUST PRIOR TO THE START OF THE 6AM SHIFT. MINER WAS HAND SHOVELING RAW COAL FROM THE BASE TO SCOOP INTO LOADER. NOT WEARING A HARD HAT.
Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 78
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2013
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 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Master Aggregates Toa Baja Corp.2fatal77 total
- Northeast Solite Corp1fatal79 total
- Stavola Construction Materials, Inc1fatal77 total
- Black Butte Coal Company1fatal80 total
- Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc.this operator1fatal78 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
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON34 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS21 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE9 non-fatal
- MACHINERY7 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal