Employee was mobilizing dozer to work site for following day via haul road. Cause of accident unknown. Employee went over embankment and was found approx. halfway down mountain. Details unknown at this time. Employee found deceased. No eye witnesses.
Appalachian Resource Company LLCController
MSHA Controller ID: 0157781
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 37
- Mines on record
- 9
- Years on record
- 2021–2026
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
- Rory Williams; James Williams2fatal38 total
- Johnson S E Companies Inc1fatal37 total
- White Forest Resources, Inc1fatal36 total
- Roy Beard1fatal36 total
- Appalachian Resource Company LLCthis controller1fatal37 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
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS8 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE5 non-fatal
- FIRE4 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK4 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
6
2024
4
2023
8 (1f)
2022
8
2021
9
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck against a moving object