Mining Incidents

Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc.Operator

Controlled by Lhoist Group
MSHA Operator ID: L16768
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
86
Mines on record
2
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
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#175of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
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

  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 8 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS26 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON21 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)12 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE4 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2024
2
2022
3 (1f)
2021
3
2020
7
2019
4
2018
3
2017
2
2016
3
2015
2
2014
7
2012
3
2011
5
2010
4
2009
7
2008
4
2007
7
2006
5
2005
4 (1f)
2004
2
2003
1
2002
5
2001
2
2000
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

Fatal injury to a temporary employee with Gillman Services, Inc was experienced when they were engulfed by a flow of lime kiln dust while operating a CAT 336 Excavator.

Struck by flying object

Plant maintenance employees were installing a bearing housing back into the fan on the #3 coal mill. An employee was fatally injuried by one of the tools being used to install the bearing.