While The Page dragline was still digging, the Assistant on the dragline crew entered the area in the back of the dragline w/o first notifying the dragline operator. The Assistant was injured when he was struck by the dragline shoe as the dragline turned to deposit a load of material. The Assistant was promptly transported to the hospital and he died there the following day.
NACCO Industries IncController
MSHA Controller ID: C01333
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 574
- Mines on record
- 16
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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
- Coeur Mining, Inc.3fatal577 total
- Oglebay Norton Company3fatal586 total
- GCC SAB de CV2fatal568 total
- Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community1fatal554 total
- NACCO Industries Incthis controller1fatal574 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 · 81 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS162 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON119 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)80 non-fatal
- OTHER35 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE34 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
6
2025
6
2024
12
2023
8
2022
7
2021
10
2020
20
2019
24
2018
25
2017
24
2016
21
2015
26
2014
17
2013
36
2012
19
2011
35
2010
27
2009
34
2008
24
2007
27 (1f)
2006
16
2005
20
2004
26
2003
25
2002
27
2001
32
2000
20
Operators under this controller
- The Coteau Properties Company139
- The Sabine Mining Company121
- Falkirk Mining Company104
- The North American Coal Corp61
- Mississippi Lignite Mining Company58
- Camino Real Fuels, LLC21
- Bisti Fuels Company LLC18
- Coyote Creek Mining Company, L.L.C.16
- Red River Mining Company11
- Reed Minerals, Inc.9
- Liberty Fuels Company LLC6
- Demery Resources Company3
- C&H Mining3
- Caddo Creek Resources Company L.L.C.2
- Centennial Natural Resources, LLC2
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by powered moving object