Mining Incidents

David W Dye; Randy K SmithController

MSHA Controller ID: 0075715
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
4
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2014–2021

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
#465of 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

  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
  • FIRE1 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2021
3 (1f)
2014
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE is believed to have been either chipping away several inches of top layer of brownish colored granite or drilling a chain hole through the granite near end of the block on the open face so block could be lifted using a chain. Granite block being worked on was approx. 5'x12'x30'. Additional submitted details on file.