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Taylor Walter Scott Sr & Jr: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C00864

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
43
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1983–1992
Injury rate, 2005
ⓘ This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 5.11 and the all-US-mining average was 4.21 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
ⓘ A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust
ⓘ Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2006-06-01, 20 years ago
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
18
samples
1.59
dust max (mg/m3)
13 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 5 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • MECHANIC7
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER3
  • WASHER OPERATOR3

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2005-12-07, 20 years ago
1.5
silica avg (%)
1
samples
1.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • MECHANIC1
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

Noise
ⓘ The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2006-06-01, 20 years ago
20%
over PEL
15
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER3
  • WASHER OPERATOR3
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR2
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

1992
1
1989
10
1988
6
1987
10 (1f)
1986
4
1985
3
1984
2
1983
7

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
August 12, 1987 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Drummond Company, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS PU8HING MATERIAL FROM AN OLD WASHER FINES POND. THE POND HAD BEEN DRAINED AND ALLOWED TO DRY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WAS PUSHING THE MATERIAL OVER THE HIGHWALL WHEN A SECTION BEHIN D HIM BROKE LOO8E ENGULFING THE DOZER TO WINDOW LEVEL AND PUSHED THE DOZER OVER THE HIGHWALL.

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Where Taylor Walter Scott Sr & Jr stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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