Mining Incidents

Earl BrinkerController

MSHA Controller ID: 0055549
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
126
Mines on record
23
Period

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
#203of 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

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 34 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS44 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)13 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE11 non-fatal
  • OTHER8 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY7 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2018
11
2017
4
2016
6
2015
11
2014
12 (1f)
2013
9
2012
9
2011
8
2010
5
2009
7
2008
17
2007
13
2006
13
2005
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Fall from machine

The EE involved arrived 15 minutes before start time and went directly to his haul truck and started the truck. While in the shop the EE reported to another EE that he had slipped and fallen from his truck after it was started. He said he missed the bottom step and fell against the tire. He slid down the tire, striking his head on the concrete. He died on 11/27/2014.