Mining Incidents

James H BoothController

MSHA Controller ID: C11194
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
1,000
Mines on record
57
Period

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 120 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 79 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS291 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON188 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK140 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)95 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2020
6
2019
20
2018
33
2017
37
2016
63
2015
68 (1f)
2014
52
2013
85
2012
104
2011
81 (1f)
2010
84
2009
99
2008
76
2007
94
2006
98

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

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

The employee was connecting a chain around the bumper of a tractor to a road grader when the grader rolled back and pinned him between to bumper of the tractor and Grader.

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

Setting miner up to take first cut of coal when he became pinched between miner boom and rib.