Employee was driving Service truck SR136 on the main haul road heading east towards the pit. For unknown reasons at this time it appears the truck hit the berm on the south side of the road causing it to tip sideways ending up on the drivers side. EE was found outside of the vehicle.
Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 288
- Mines on record
- 1
- 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 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- McCoy Elkhorn Coal Corporation3fatal290 total
- Cleveland-Cliffs Minorca Mine Inc.this operator2fatal288 total
- Buchanan Minerals, LLC1fatal286 total
- Quikrete Construction Materials, LLC1fatal285 total
- Wabash Mine Holding Company1fatal293 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 43 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 18 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS103 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON58 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)35 non-fatal
- OTHER9 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedThe deceased was fatally injured when a P&H Omega 20 ton mobile crane tipped on top of him while he attempted to exit the crane. The crane was attempting to postion a de-watering pipe when the accident occured. This accident is still under investigation by MSHA and Hazmat and United Steelworkers.