Mining Incidents

National Coal CorporationController

MSHA Controller ID: 0041843
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
183
Mines on record
17
Years on record
2000–2010

Safety benchmark

Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#286of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers 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.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 18 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK41 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS29 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY24 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON15 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)8 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2010
28
2009
43 (1f)
2008
10
2007
27
2006
17
2005
17
2004
9

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck against stationary object

Truck traveling from mine site. The victim had truck in high gear, truck was out of control, he put truck in ditch and jumped out. Victim received fatal injury to head.