Crane fell over into quarry with operator inside cab. The victim was operating crane lifting an approximately 15 ton block of granite from the pit. The boom of the crane lowered causing the crane to tip over and fall 85 feet into the pit.
Robert E PaulController
MSHA Controller ID: M10572
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 44
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2023
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
- Orchard Global Asset Management LLP2fatal45 total
- R G Kirkpatrick Sr.2fatal45 total
- Clearwater Natural Resources LP1fatal45 total
- Brad Mercord; Bill Carter1fatal45 total
- Robert E Paulthis controller1fatal44 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS11 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)10 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON8 non-fatal
- DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS)4 non-fatal
- OTHER1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2023
1
2022
2
2021
3
2019
3 (1f)
2018
3
2017
2
2016
1
2015
2
2014
4
2012
2
2011
4
2010
2
2009
4
2008
1
2007
2
2006
2
2005
4
2000
2
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck against a moving object