Mining Incidents

Pittston CompanyController

MSHA Controller ID: C00230
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
373
Mines on record
33
Years on record
2000–2003

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
#337of 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 · 23 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK126 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS79 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY52 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON39 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)24 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2003
4
2002
98
2001
126
2000
145 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck by powered moving object

FOREMAN WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS CRUSHED WITH THE REAR WHEELS OF A LOADED FORD 9000 COAL TRUCK. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN THE VICTIM BENT OVER TO MOVE A WATER HOSE AND WAS CRUSHED BY T HE REAR WHEELS OF THE COAL TRUCK MOVING IN REVERSE TOWARD THE RAW COAL BINS.