Mining Incidents

U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLCOperator

Controlled by Usx Corp
MSHA Operator ID: P23615
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
467
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2000–2003

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
#353of 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

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLC. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 85 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS117 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)54 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK39 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)29 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY26 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2003
67
2002
167
2001
110 (1f)
2000
123

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Unclassified, insufficient data

IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE VICTIM WAS MISSING SHORTLY AFTER 10:00 PM. A SEARCH BEGAN WHICH CULMINATED IN THE VICTIM'S RETRIEVAL FROM THE ""A"" RAW COAL SILO AT APPROXIMATELY 7:55 PM ON MARCH 15, 2001. IT IS INCONCLUSIVE AS TO EXACTLY WHERE THE VICTIM ENTERED THE RAW COAL SYSTEM. CONSEQUENTLY AN EXACT CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT DETERMINED.