Mining Incidents

Joel Robert Ovyn; William D Ovyn; Darren G OvynController

MSHA Controller ID: 0165741
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2021

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
#320of 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

  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 fatality

Incident timeline

2021
1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A miner entered a surge bin to free stuck material. The material collapsed and engulfed the miner.