Mining Incidents

Arch Coal Inc.; Franklin D. Robertson; James O. BunnController

MSHA Controller ID: 0105613
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
209
Mines on record
8
Years on record
2012–2020

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
#363of 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

  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 10 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS57 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK49 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON28 non-fatal
  • FIRE27 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)14 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2020
35
2019
45
2018
17
2017
21
2016
18
2015
22
2014
12
2013
22 (1f)
2012
17

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

At approximately 8:35pm the miner operator was fatally injured when he caught himself between the tail of the miner and the coal rib.