Mining Incidents

Lawrence Sali; Steve SaliController

MSHA Controller ID: M01621
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
14
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2001–2016

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
#459of 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
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON5 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS5 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
  • NO VALUE FOUND1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2016
2
2012
1
2011
1
2007
1
2006
2
2005
1
2004
3
2003
1
2002
1
2001
1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING THE SAND HOPPER AT THE WASHPLANT USING A JOHN DEERE THE OTHER LOADER OBSERVED THE LOADER PARKED AT THE SAND HOPPER WITH ITS BUCKET IN THE AIR WITHOUT AN OPERATOR IN THE CA B. THE OTHER LOADER OPERATOR OBSERVED EE'S LEGS STICKING OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF SAND HOPPER ON THE CONVEYER BELT AND SHUT POWER OFF, RADIOED FOR HELP.