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.
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.
There were no witnesses to the accident. The operator was found outside of his loader buried under gravel that had sloughed off of the stock pile he was loading from. Fellow employees were attempting to remove the gravel from on top of him when officials showed up. Officials declared him dead at the scene.