The victim backed the truck he was driving to the edge of the overburden dumpsite and started to raise the truck's bed to dump a load of material. The bank failed and the truck overturned falling 30 feet below. The victim died in route to the hospital.
George F Edwards JrController
MSHA Controller ID: M33468
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 16
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2017
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
- Patrick Peterson1fatal16 total
- Horace Garrison Hill1fatal16 total
- Karen Palmer1fatal16 total
- Jeff Joyce1fatal16 total
- George F Edwards Jrthis controller1fatal16 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS6 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2017
1
2014
1 (1f)
2012
1
2007
2
2005
2
2004
1
2003
4
2002
1
2001
2
2000
1
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck against a moving object