A miner received fatal injuries. After a bridge collapsed that the miner was operating a skid steer loader on. The miner was clearing refractory brick form a rotary kiln. The bridge that was installed by the property owner collapsed. The skid steer fell approximately 10 feet into a hopper, causing the payload of brick to engulf the operator causing fatal wounds.
GCC Dacotah IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 168
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2001–2026
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.
- Appalachian Fuels, LLC2fatal168 total
- Barrick Cortez Inc.1fatal166 total
- Atalco Gramercy LLC1fatal170 total
- C F Industries Inc1fatal171 total
- GCC Dacotah Incthis operator1fatal168 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 · 9 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS55 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON35 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)29 non-fatal
- MACHINERY15 non-fatal
- STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT5 non-fatal