Mining Incidents

Hugh E HarveyController

MSHA Controller ID: M13503
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
324
Mines on record
5
Years on record
2001–2022

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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of controllers on file.

Rank
#121of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.0×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
2
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 · 29 non-fatal
  • ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS90 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON56 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)45 non-fatal
  • HOISTING37 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2022
1
2020
2
2019
7
2018
6
2017
7
2016
7
2015
28
2014
16
2013
26
2012
20
2011
19
2010
17
2009
19
2008
33 (1f)
2007
30
2006
23
2005
30 (1f)
2004
28
2003
1
2002
2
2001
2

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

2 recorded
Contact with electrical current

EE was found unconscious, with no resp or pulse pit between hydroseparator and floc building. CPR was administered and EE was transported to CMS where he was pronounced dead. Autopsy report has not been recieved. A heat trace tape was found arcing near where EE was found.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee parked water wagon, got off, didn't chock wheels or set park brake. Vehicle rolled, he either slipped and fell under Rt tire or tire knocked him down and ran up on lower torso.