Mining Incidents

Robert E EllisController

MSHA Controller ID: 0074513
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
153
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2008–2012

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
#577of 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

  • HOISTING1 fatality · 22 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS47 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK28 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON16 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE12 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)10 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2012
9
2011
38
2010
45
2009
35 (1f)
2008
26

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck by powered moving object

Hoisting accident, still under investigation.