Mining Incidents

Lloyd Cole; Larry HubbardController

MSHA Controller ID: C13893
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
4
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2000–2011

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
#208of 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 · 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2011
1
2006
1 (1f)
2004
1
2000
1

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

Inverted horse back resulted in fatality. ""A fatal roof fall occurred at D&R Coal, Inc. Mine No. 2. The victim was located at the pillar corner in the crosscut between the No 7 and No 8 entry on the 001 MMU, when he was struck by a piece of draw rock approx 6' long X 3' wide X 6-8"" thick. Victim was pronounced dead at the scene by the assistant Knox County Coroner.""