Mining Incidents

Covia Solutions Inc.Operator

Controlled by Covia Holdings LLC
MSHA Operator ID: L00645
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.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#684of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

2024
11
2023
12
2022
19
2021
15
2020
18
2019
27
2018
47
2017
43
2016
25
2015
31
2014
45
2013
44
2012
42
2011
47
2010
42
2009
35
2008
51
2007
47
2006
47
2005
42
2004
42
2003
53
2002
58
2001
50 (1f)
2000
50

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

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.