It was determined that the employee had previously mined the #3 entry on the 7S section. The employee had moved the CM outby 12 crosscut and had walked back to the last row of support in the #3 entry to adjust the tubing. A rock fell from just inby the last row of permanent support and struck the employee taking them to the ground. This fatality was investigated by MSHA.
Alabama Kanu Holdings LLCController
MSHA Controller ID: 0186824
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 113
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2024–2026
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
- Mepco Intermediate Holdings, LLC2fatal115 total
- SSR Mining Incorporated2fatal116 total
- Elementia Materiales1fatal111 total
- Cloud Peak Energy Resources LLC1fatal109 total
- Alabama Kanu Holdings LLCthis controller1fatal113 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS42 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON23 non-fatal
- HOISTING20 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE7 non-fatal
- MACHINERY7 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
16
2025
70
2024
27 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by falling object