Mining Incidents

Gary A HornController

MSHA Controller ID: C12338
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
22
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2000–2001

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
#462of 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

  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS11 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE4 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001
3
2000
19 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

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

EMPLOYEE WAS BACKING THE MINER OUT OF THE #3 HEADING LEFT BREAK WHEN HE GOT PINNED BETWEEN THE MINER AND THE RIB.