Mining Incidents

Karen PalmerController

MSHA Controller ID: M32583
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
16
Mines on record
1
Period

Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY3 non-fatal
  • POISONING (TOXIC MATERIALS)3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)2 non-fatal
  • STRIKING OR BUMPING1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
2
2024
1
2023
2
2021
1
2018
1
2014
1 (1f)
2012
1
2008
1
2007
1
2005
1
2004
1
2000
3

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was shrink wrapping a pallet with a weed burner and for some unknown reason he burned himself and was found by a co-worker in a serious burn condition. He is burned over 36% of his body including left arm, which has been amputated, and his right upper arm, chest and face. The cause of death was mucomuyosis (fungal infection).