Mining Incidents

American Energy CorporationOperator

Controlled by Robert E Murray
MSHA Operator ID: P24538
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
716
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2001–2020

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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#156of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
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.

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Top causes

  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 96 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS257 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON93 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK83 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)69 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE45 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2020
1
2019
30
2018
20
2017
17
2016
7
2015
25
2014
33
2013
72 (1f)
2012
73
2011
38 (1f)
2010
32
2009
37
2008
55
2007
40
2006
34
2005
44
2004
45
2003
47
2002
44
2001
22

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

A fatal accident occurred on the longwall face around #144 shield. A ladder line hose got pinched under the toe of the #144 shield. EE did not see hose under shield and initiated the electronic push of the pan-line. The hose that was pinched under the toe of the shield, stretched by movement of pan-line, broke apart and high pressure emulsion fluid struck victim as he traveled by.

Struck by falling object

The victim was leaning over a base lift jack housing. The molded casing catastrophically failed striking the victim in the chest from unknown/undetectable reasons. Cause was catastrophic failure of the housing. Compliance with rules/regs, protective items not a factor, miner proficiency may be a factor, mining equip/systems may be a factor.