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James C Justice IIController

MSHA Controller ID: C04355
Fatalities
3
Total incidents
605
Mines on record
78
Years on record
2000–2017

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
86th

More recorded fatalities than 86% of controllers on file.

Rank
#53of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
3
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 HAULAGE2 fatalities · 87 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 135 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS122 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK78 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY67 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)53 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2017
6 (1f)
2016
17
2015
9
2014
15
2013
53
2012
50
2011
110
2010
79
2009
80
2008
53 (1f)
2007
24
2006
17 (1f)
2005
23
2004
26
2003
10
2002
10
2001
13
2000
10

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

3 recorded
Chestnut Land Holdings, LLC
Fall from ladders

Employee was last observed as employee began to ascend an extension ladder. There is no eye witness, it is apparent the employee fell approximately 20ft. onto a moving conveyor belt and was fatally injured.

Double Bonus Coal Company
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

For reasons unknown at this time, the victim came out of the truck and was run over by the truck.

Double Bonus Coal Company
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was observing the mechanic working on a shuttle car. It was revealed during the accident investigation, that the mechanic pressed the tram pedal, causing the shuttle car to inadvertently move. The shuttle car crushed the employee between the shuttle car and the rib.