Contact with electrical current
Crane lifting conveyor belt off of trailer using cable rigging employee was guiding rigging crane struck overhead power line employee was electrocuted
The Heritage GroupController
MSHA Controller ID: M01806
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 220
- Mines on record
- 25
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 73% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
2
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Andalex Resources B V3fatal219 total
- The Heritage Groupthis controller2fatal220 total
- Scott Simplot1fatal219 total
- James M Syar1fatal223 total
- Rainbow Trout Coal LLC1fatal223 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
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 fatality · 43 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS64 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON51 non-fatal
- MACHINERY25 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE10 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
3
2025
7
2024
7 (1f)
2023
3
2022
7
2021
12
2020
5
2019
6
2018
7
2017
10
2016
3
2015
9
2014
4
2013
14
2012
8
2011
8
2010
6
2009
4
2008
6
2007
6 (1f)
2006
7
2005
22
2004
7
2003
19
2002
6
2001
14
2000
10
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- US Aggregates-Flat Rock PlantIN
- Delphi PlantIN
- US Aggregates-Ridgeville QuarryIN
- US Aggregates-Linn Grove QuarryIN
- US Aggregates-Pleasant Mills QuarryIN
- US Aggregates-Columbus PlantIN
- US Aggregates-Portland QuarryIN
- US Aggregates-Francesville QuarryIN
- US Aggregates - Thorntown Sand & GravelIN
- Plainfield PlantIN
- Disko PlantIN
- Noblesville Plant #1IN
- US Aggregates-Lowell QuarryIN
- Crawfordsville PlantIN
- Us Aggregates Richmond PlantIN
- Noblesville Plant #2IN
- US Aggregates-Swisher PlantIN
- Waverly- Mann RdIN
- Richmond Plant #2IN
- Thorntown Plant #2IN
- Perkinsville PlantIN
- 243 QuarryIN
- US Aggregates-Springville PlantIN
- Columbia CityIN
- Plant 42 MIN
Fatalities under this controller
2 recordedStruck by flying object
Employee was working on a crusher. A bucket tooth was wedged in the crusher. The crusher was jacked up. The jack kicked out and employee was struck in the head by an unknown object and knocked him into the bed of the truck where he struck his head on an unknown object. Employee received head trauma.