Mining Incidents

Maria Cantwell; Bonnie R Ryan; Brian R RichController

MSHA Controller ID: 0174120
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
31
Mines on record
6
Years on record
2023–2026

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
#178of 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

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON11 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS7 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
2
2025
10
2024
13 (1f)
2023
6

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck against a moving object

Truck driver was found unresponsive in the cab of EE's overturned truck at the bottom of the feed ramp drop off. There were no witnesses to the accident. Investigation is still pending.