About 3:15 pm., employee went to a storage building to get some planks. He climbed a stack of loaded pallets to get to the planks that were near the rafters and fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below and was found dead the next morning at approximately 6:02 am.
David George KasmochController
MSHA Controller ID: 0097533
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 6
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2011–2018
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.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Robert Caldwell; Dale Armstrong2fatal6 total
- Timothy M Smith1fatal6 total
- HMT Holdings, Inc.1fatal6 total
- Joel Oddee Smith; James Ron Smith1fatal6 total
- David George Kasmochthis controller1fatal6 total
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 · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2018
1
2014
2 (1f)
2013
1
2012
1
2011
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedFall from piled material