Miner was on first floor of ""New Office"" working on a ladder changing a light. Miners co-worker went to basement to retrieve another new light. Co-worker heard a thump and a bang on the ceiling. Co-worker found miner sitting slumped on the floor unresponsive. Started CPR, called 911, deployed AED but the miner could never be revived.
Tower Rock Stone CompanyOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 171
- Mines on record
- 2
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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.
- C F Industries Inc1fatal171 total
- Granite Construction Company1fatal171 total
- Atalco Gramercy LLC1fatal170 total
- Dags Branch Coal Company Inc1fatal173 total
- Tower Rock Stone Companythis operator1fatal171 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
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON55 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS44 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)28 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE13 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT11 non-fatal