Mining Incidents

Robert Stump; Eddie DelongController

MSHA Controller ID: 0049929
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
4
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2005–2006

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
#505of 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

  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2006
3 (1f)
2005
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

Employee was walking to his shuttle car when draw rock fell from top pinning lower half of his body underneath. Rock was 20' long, 86"" wide, 6.5"" thick.