Struck by falling object
Victim was operating front-end loader in coal pit area, when a highwall failure occurred, covering the front-end loader completely.
Cedar Lake Mining, IncOperator
Controlled by Michael T Costello
MSHA Operator ID: 0073585
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 20
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2009–2021
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
- Amerikohl Mining Inc1fatal20 total
- Laurel Aggregates of Delaware LLC1fatal20 total
- Day Mining Inc1fatal20 total
- South Fork Coal Company, LLC1fatal20 total
- Cedar Lake Mining, Inc.this operator1fatal20 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 FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE6 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS2 non-fatal
- FIRE2 non-fatal
- OTHER1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2021
1
2020
2
2019
2
2018
5 (1f)
2017
3
2016
3
2015
2
2011
1
2009
1