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.
Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc.Operator
- 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.
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.
- Genwal Resources, Inc.9fatal88 total
- Lhoist North America of Virginia, Inc.this operator2fatal86 total
- Dorchester Enterprises, Inc.1fatal86 total
- Rhino Eastern LLC1fatal85 total
- The N. C. Granite Corp1fatal85 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
- 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedPlant 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.