While working a steep backfill slope doing reclaimation work, the dozer operator was unable to maintain control, resulting in rollover of dozer approx 4-5 times. Although wearing seatbelt, a broken back and swelling of C-spine resulted, causing loss of sensation and paralysis.
Alex Energy LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 389
- Mines on record
- 11
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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.
- Performance Coal Company, LLC31fatal379 total
- Lhoist North America of Arizona Inc.2fatal383 total
- Morton Salt Div/Morton International Inc1fatal383 total
- Crimson Oak Grove Resources LLC1fatal380 total
- Alex Energy, LLCthis operator1fatal389 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 56 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS104 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON69 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK40 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)36 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE35 non-fatal