Victim was assisting with extracting the highwall miner cars. EE had been shoveling dirt/mud off the deck of the miner. EE was standing at the rear of the deck while a car was being extracted and for unknown reason head came forward and was caught between the car and a support post. Suffered crushing injuries to the head.
White Forest Resources, IncController
MSHA Controller ID: 0133023
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 36
- Mines on record
- 10
- Years on record
- 2016–2024
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
- McDonald Investment Company Inc3fatal35 total
- Roy Beard1fatal36 total
- Brian T Etchison; Ralph E Janes IV1fatal35 total
- Warren W Harshman1fatal35 total
- White Forest Resources, Incthis controller1fatal36 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON11 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS7 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE5 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)3 non-fatal
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2024
2
2023
4
2022
2
2021
3
2020
2
2019
9 (1f)
2018
5
2017
4
2016
5
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object