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James H KirklandController

MSHA Controller ID: M07566
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
48
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2000–2013

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
#406of 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 · 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS17 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY9 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)5 non-fatal
  • OTHER1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013
3
2012
3
2011
4
2008
3
2006
4
2005
2
2004
10
2003
7 (1f)
2002
1
2001
6
2000
5

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Eastern Colorado Aggregates
Drowning

THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT. THE GROUND SLOUGHED OFF SENDING THE EMPLOYEE AND THE FORKLIFT INTO THE POND.