AN APPARENT BRAKE MALFUNCTION CAUSED THE VICTIM TO EXIT THE CAB & WAS PULLED UNDER THE REAR WHEELS OR HE PARKED IT & CRAWLED UNDER THE BED TO CHECK A PROBLEM. EITHER SENARIO CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO ROLL OVER HIS BODY CRUSHING HIM TO DEATH. THERE WAS NO APPARENT DAMAGE TO THE TRUCK.
Covia Solutions Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 943
- Mines on record
- 42
- Years on record
- 2000–2024
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.
- Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc10fatal944 total
- McElroy Coal Company8fatal946 total
- River View Coal LLC2fatal932 total
- CEMEX INC.1fatal947 total
- Unimin Corporationthis operator1fatal943 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 · 69 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS338 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON209 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)102 non-fatal
- MACHINERY73 non-fatal
- OTHER59 non-fatal
Incident timeline
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- PLANT #1NC
- Plant 2NC
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