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.
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.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Charles C Ungurean4fatal261 total
- ArcelorMittal USA LLC2fatal256 total
- Mitsubishi Corp1fatal259 total
- Charles S Luck IV1fatal254 total
- Thomas A Laurita; James L Laurita Jrthis controller1fatal262 total
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 recordedStruck by falling object