Struck by falling object
Employee was driving on work site when a tree fell off the High Wall into the cab of employee's pickup.
Thomas R HamiltonController
MSHA Controller ID: C03974
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 314
- Mines on record
- 42
- 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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
2
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Quintana Capital Group GP Ltd3fatal324 total
- United States Lime & Minerals Inc2fatal317 total
- Hugh E Harvey2fatal324 total
- Thomas R Hamiltonthis controller2fatal314 total
- Ramaco Resources Inc1fatal322 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 · 41 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON89 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS74 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE45 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)20 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
2
2025
11
2024
9
2023
5
2022
11 (1f)
2021
10
2020
4
2019
12
2018
9
2017
5
2016
5
2015
5
2014
14
2013
7
2012
17
2011
37 (1f)
2010
20
2009
11
2008
13
2007
12
2006
13
2005
12
2004
13
2003
16
2002
13
2001
14
2000
12
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Straight CreekKY
- Mill BranchKY
- Big Laurel #3KY
- Brookside LoadoutKY
- Trace BranchKY
- Sang BranchKY
- Johnson Branch #2KY
- Colliers CreekKY
- Gordon No 1KY
- Big BranchKY
- Doty CreekKY
- Short ForkKY
- TimbertreeKY
- Narrow BranchKY
- BalkanKY
- Turkey BranchKY
- Mason #1KY
- Jake's CreekKY
- Chestnut FlatsKY
- Lewis CreekKY
- Carr ForkKY
- Brushy MountainKY
- Big Laurel #4KY
- Wolf Pen #1KY
- Bear BranchKY
- Shipley BranchKY
- Four MileKY
- PathforkKY
- MarrowboneKY
- Tinsley BranchKY
- Day BranchKY
- Spruce PineKY
- Three PointKY
- StinnettKY
- Cranks CreekKY
- ColmarKY
- Insull RidgeKY
- Meadow BranchKY
- Kelly BranchKY
- Defeated CreekKY
- Cawood #1KY
- RodaVA
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedStruck against a moving object
Employee was reclaiming highwall with dozer when the dozer flipped and rolled several times landing in the road. Employee was unconscious with labored breathing when they got to him.