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.
U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLCOperator
- 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.
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.
- MLC6fatal462 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Safford Inc2fatal472 total
- FMC Corp1fatal468 total
- Warrior Met Coal Mining, LLC1fatal465 total
- U.S. Steel Mining Company, LLCthis operator1fatal467 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
- 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