Drowning
THE EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A FORKLIFT. THE GROUND SLOUGHED OFF SENDING THE EMPLOYEE AND THE FORKLIFT INTO THE POND.
Eastern Colorado AggregatesOperator
Controlled by James H Kirkland
MSHA Operator ID: L17135
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 41
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2013
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.
This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Spring Creek Coal LLC2fatal41 total
- Hubble Mining LLC2fatal41 total
- Con-Agg Companies,LLC1fatal41 total
- Best Sand Corporation1fatal41 total
- Eastern Colorado Aggregatesthis operator1fatal41 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS14 non-fatal
- MACHINERY9 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON8 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal
- OTHER1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2013
3
2012
3
2011
4
2008
3
2006
4
2005
2
2004
8
2003
6 (1f)
2002
1
2001
2
2000
5