Mining Incidents

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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.

Rank
#390of 590

Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.5×

Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.

This controller
1
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 · 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 recorded
Struck against a moving object

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.