Mining Incidents

Thomas A Laurita; James L Laurita JrController

MSHA Controller ID: C12488
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
262
Mines on record
12
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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#263of 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

  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 111 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS38 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY28 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON26 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE20 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)18 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
1
2024
2
2022
1
2021
2
2013
1
2011
1
2010
1
2009
2
2008
14
2007
78
2006
32 (1f)
2005
32
2004
24
2003
18
2002
15
2001
19
2000
19

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

While traveling underground toward section, employees noticed top breaking and dripping and could not get stopped in time to avoid roof fall. Equip. operator stopped ride & started backing up when fall occurred, striking employee. #2 Main Intake 18 Bl., inby spad #34.