D-10T Dozer was slot dozing un-shot muck to assist a loader in Phase W-A. After working parallel to the pit crest for approximately an hour, the dozer reversed abruptly to the right and backed over the pit edge berm. The dozer fell approximately 300' landing on a catch bench below.
Kinross Gold CorpController
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 730
- Mines on record
- 13
- 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 86% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
- Coronado Coal LLC4fatal729 total
- Alcoa Inc3fatal742 total
- Chevron Corporation3fatal760 total
- Kinross Gold Corpthis controller3fatal730 total
- Graymont Ltd1fatal741 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 162 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 81 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 47 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS245 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)81 non-fatal
- OTHER27 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedTruck driver was hauling gold ore to the plant. While descending the roadway from the mine, the victim lost control of truck. Went up embankment & over an appox drop 20' drop landing back in the roadway. The victim was transported to the hospital & died of injuries several days later.
Employee was working without fall protection and fell to his death.