Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL BOLTS IN THE ROOF, EMPLOYER HIT THE UP LEVER ON THE BOLT MACHINE. HIS HEAD WAS OVER TOP OF THE POT & IT CRUSHED HIS HEAD AGAINST THE CANOPY.
Timothy P SmithController
MSHA Controller ID: C16005
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 97
- Mines on record
- 11
- Years on record
- 2001–2007
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
- Doug Dalton2fatal98 total
- Newpark Resources Inc2fatal100 total
- Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd1fatal100 total
- EP Management Corporation1fatal93 total
- Timothy P Smiththis controller1fatal97 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 · 8 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS23 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK21 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON11 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE10 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)9 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
2
2006
20
2005
14
2004
10
2003
25
2002
22 (1f)
2001
4