Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
A fatal accident occurred when a miner became entangled in a take up pulley on the #13 conveyor belt. A guard was in place at the time of the accident.
Donald M MarchController
MSHA Controller ID: M01171
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 53
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000–2007
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
- Five J's LLC3fatal53 total
- Boone Trust, Samuel A.B. (Alex) Boone Trustee2fatal54 total
- Lexington Coal Holdings, Inc1fatal53 total
- John W Rich Jr1fatal52 total
- Donald M Marchthis controller1fatal53 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS19 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON12 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)7 non-fatal
- DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)3 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND2 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
6 (1f)
2006
6
2005
4
2004
8
2003
10
2002
5
2001
7
2000
7