IDS driver was instructed by Lynch to dump employee's load under unsafe conditions. The berm that the Lynch operator constructed was inadequate/non-existent due to the pile being dug into by Lynch from below. This caused the earth to fall away under back tires. End dump rolled down embankment flipping and landing on its roof. Employee was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Lynch Corp.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 2
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2013–2025
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.
- East Coast Mines & Materials2fatal2 total
- WPR, Inc.1fatal2 total
- Pinky's Aggregates Inc1fatal2 total
- Gold Run Enterprises LLC1fatal2 total
- Lynch Corp.this operator1fatal2 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)1 non-fatal