Employee was operating an Excavator assisting Dozer operator in removing a big rock on the DC8A pit area. Excavator was between the rock and the top of highwall. Excavator went over the highwall ejecting the employee.
Scott KiscadenController
MSHA Controller ID: C15876
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 31
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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
- Maria Cantwell; Bonnie R Ryan; Brian R Rich1fatal31 total
- Albert R Frei1fatal30 total
- Jose Terrasa1fatal32 total
- Carl E Petrillo1fatal30 total
- Scott Kiscadenthis controller1fatal31 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE10 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS8 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON5 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
- FIRE1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
9
2024
2 (1f)
2023
3
2022
3
2019
3
2018
3
2017
7
2000
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck against stationary object