Mining Incidents

Ruben Garza; Cesar F SaenzController

MSHA Controller ID: 0151525
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
7
Mines on record
1
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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#414of 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
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS3 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
  • OTHER1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
1
2023
2
2022
1
2021
1
2020
1 (1f)
2019
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Fall from machine

Employee was closing the hatches on a pneumatic truck. While attempting to get back onto the catwalk employee fell off the truck. Employee was wearing EE's harness but EE did not tie off properly. Emergency responders attempted to render first aid but were unsuccessful. At this moment I do not have a detailed description of all the contributing factors that led to the fall.