Struck by falling object
Employee was struck-by a rock in the 2 Right crosscut of the 16 East Section, while traveling under unsupported roof.
Buchanan Minerals, LLCOperator
Controlled by Coronado Coal LLC
MSHA Operator ID: 0144433
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 286
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2016–2026
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
- McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation3fatal290 total
- Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc.2fatal288 total
- Ohio County Coal Resources, Inc.2fatal281 total
- Quikrete Construction Materials, LLC1fatal285 total
- Buchanan Minerals, LLCthis operator1fatal286 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 · 37 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS63 non-fatal
- DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS50 non-fatal
- HOISTING30 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON26 non-fatal
- MACHINERY26 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
17
2025
43
2024
56 (1f)
2023
36
2022
36
2021
24
2020
15
2019
16
2018
18
2017
13
2016
12