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Westmoreland Coal CompanyController

MSHA Controller ID: C01550
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
627
Mines on record
17
Years on record
2001–2019

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
#394of 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 · 68 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS187 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON119 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY69 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)58 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)32 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2019
7
2018
46
2017
41 (1f)
2016
48
2015
38
2014
30
2013
20
2012
20
2011
17
2010
23
2009
27
2008
39
2007
41
2006
51
2005
40
2004
44
2003
34
2002
33
2001
28

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Westmoreland Rosebud Mining LLC
Struck against a moving object

On May 6, 2017 at approximately 16:55 a haul truck operator backed up to a berm to dump, the berm breeched and the haul truck and berm slid down the highwall approximately 150 ft. There were no witness to the incident.