EE WAS OPERATING A DM600 MACK FUEL TRUCK WHEN HE APPARENTLY LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND JUMPED OUT OF THE TRUCK. IN DOING SO, HE SUSTAINED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES AND DIED ON 10-4-01. THE ACCID ENT HAPPENED ON A DESCENDING ROAD. CAUSE IS STILL UNDETERMINED.
Lodestar Energy IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 431
- Mines on record
- 15
- 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 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Mettiki Coal WV, LLC3fatal424 total
- Greenbrier Minerals, LLC3fatal443 total
- Lodestar Energy, Inc.this operator2fatal431 total
- New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co., Inc.1fatal427 total
- CARMEUSE LIME, INC.1fatal418 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 HAULAGE2 fatalities · 20 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS117 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK97 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON63 non-fatal
- MACHINERY58 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)36 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A ROCK TRUCK, DUMPING INTO HOLLOW FILL #6. HE BACKED TO THE DUMP AND THEN REPOSITIONED TRUCK. AT THIS TIME THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE HILL. HE WAS THROWN FROM THE TRUCK AND RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES.