Mining Incidents

Horace Garrison HillController

MSHA Controller ID: C15279
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
16
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2002–2011

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
#189of 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

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 non-fatal
  • IMPOUNDMENT1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2011
2
2010
2
2009
4 (1f)
2006
1
2005
2
2004
2
2003
1
2002
2

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

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

Supply car was bringing concrete block into break to build permanent stoppings when chain broke letting supply car roll through curtain crushing foreman between supply car and 94L bridge causing fatal injury.