Mining Incidents

Felson BowmanController

MSHA Controller ID: C05973
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
368
Mines on record
9
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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of controllers on file.

Rank
#128of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.0×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
2
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

  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 50 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 37 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON104 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS83 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)35 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK24 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2017
5
2016
10
2015
14
2014
20
2013
18
2012
7
2011
21
2010
34
2009
26
2008
13
2007
14
2006
7
2005
16
2004
43
2003
32 (1f)
2002
27 (1f)
2001
38
2000
23

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

2 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE & CO-WORKER WERE GOING TO MOVE A LARGE PIECE OF METAL TO BLOCK UP A LOADER. COWORKER WAS IN THE LOADER AND THE BUCKET WAS IN THE AIR. EE DIRECTED COWORKER IN THE LOADER AND SIGNALED HIM TO STOP. COWORKER SAID HE STOPPED AND WAITED FOR EE TO ATTACH THE CHAIN. EE DID NOT RETURN. COWORKER GOT OFF LOADER & SAW EE WAS TRAPPED BETWEEN LOADER BUCKET & METAL. SUFFERED FATAL HEAD INJURIE

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TRUCK NOT BLOCKED AGAINST MOTION.