Struck by falling object
Employee was walking to his shuttle car when draw rock fell from top pinning lower half of his body underneath. Rock was 20' long, 86"" wide, 6.5"" thick.
Tri Star Coal L.L.C.Operator
Controlled by Robert Stump; Eddie Delong
MSHA Operator ID: 0059943
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 4
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2005–2006
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- D & R COAL, INC.1fatal4 total
- Hugo Sand Company Inc1fatal4 total
- Echols Mill Quarries LLC1fatal4 total
- Bison Materials LLC1fatal4 total
- Tri Star Coal L.L.C.this operator1fatal4 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators 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.
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Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2006
3 (1f)
2005
1
Mines on record
- No. 1KY