The victim was positioned next to the continuous mining machine operator in the No. 7 Heading of the 1 North (about 95'inby S.S.#597). The final shuttle car was being loaded from the face of the place, when a piece of roof bolted rock measuring about 71"" long X 39"" X 18"" thick fell, striking the victim. The injuries received from the occurance were fatal.
Osaka Mining CorporationOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 38
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2006–2012
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.
- Superior Silica Sands, LLC2fatal38 total
- Star Mine Operations, LLC2fatal38 total
- Zeotech Corporation1fatal39 total
- United Salt Hockley, LLC1fatal39 total
- Osaka Mining Corporationthis operator1fatal38 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 · 7 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS11 non-fatal
- MACHINERY6 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL3 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)3 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
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