Mining Incidents

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#198of 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 · 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 recorded
Fall from piled material

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.