Mining Incidents

James E Clemons JrController

MSHA Controller ID: 0042429
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
6
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2003–2019

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
#561of 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 · 1 non-fatal
  • OTHER1 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
1
2011
3
2005
1 (1f)
2003
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck against a moving object

The victim was being task trained to operator a haul truck and lost control of the truck while backing down a ramp. The truck ran through a berm, overturned, and fell approx. 30 feet to the bench below.