Struck against a moving object
Preliminary investigation finds employee operating loader over-traveled, falling down stope.
Barrick Nevada Holding LLC; Newmont USA LimitedController
MSHA Controller ID: 0149763
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 774
- Mines on record
- 22
- Years on record
- 2019–2026
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 86% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
3
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Taiheiyo Cement Corp4fatal787 total
- Teck Resources Limited3fatal775 total
- Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company3fatal761 total
- Barrick Nevada Holding LLC; Newmont USA Limitedthis controller3fatal774 total
- Donald Blankenberger2fatal772 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
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 53 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 61 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS223 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON138 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)53 non-fatal
- HOISTING50 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
37
2025
106 (1f)
2024
128
2023
123 (1f)
2022
146 (1f)
2021
96
2020
94
2019
44
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- GenesisNV
- South AreaNV
- Phoenix MineNV
- Cortez DistrictNV
- Goldstrike MineNV
- Twin Creeks MineNV
- Meikle MineNV
- Turquoise RidgeNV
- LeevilleNV
- Cortez District-UndergroundNV
- ExodusNV
- Roaster OperationsNV
- Mill/Autoclave OperationsNV
- Mill 6NV
- Pete BajoNV
- Twin UndergroundNV
- EmigrantNV
- ArturoNV
- Long CanyonNV
- GoldrushNV
- El NinoNV
- Rita KNV
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedStruck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
A utility crew was assigned to complete rehab work at the 1600 haulage corridor, which entailed removing utility lines. A team of three employees were utilizing a scissor deck with a pipe handler to remove 10"" steel pipe. They had removed one pipe section and were starting to disconnect the second pipe when they sustained injuries.
Struck against a moving object
EE involved in a powered haulage incident at stope between 4010 and 4070 levels resulting in fatal injuries. Investigation ongoing. There are seven additional NGM investigators.