Miner was apparently adding oil to hoist of truck. Box was loaded with rock and not properly blocked. The weight of the loaded box split block and the box came down unexpectedly crushing miner between the truck frame and dump box. Although no damage was done to equipment, miner was killed.
Steve Fossum; Scott Fossum; Carol FossumController
MSHA Controller ID: 0112605
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 1
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2014
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
- Kyle R Wolinski1fatal1 total
- Brent E Reed1fatal1 total
- Ivan D Barry1fatal1 total
- Marguarite Carroll1fatal1 total
- Steve Fossum; Scott Fossum; Carol Fossumthis controller1fatal1 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
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality
Incident timeline
2014
1 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by falling object