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.
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.
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
- Steve Loftus; John Loftus1fatal7 total
- Atlas Asphalt; White River Bituminous1fatal7 total
- Mark Houser; Garry W Houser1fatal7 total
- Kelley C Silvey1fatal7 total
- Ruben Garza; Cesar F Saenzthis controller1fatal7 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
- 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 recordedFall from machine