(3) MINERS WERE WORKING TO INSTALL & MOVE A NEW CONVEYOR BELT. PILAR WAS FEEDING THE BELT OFF THE ROLL TOWARD THE HEAD PULLEY. VICTIM WAS PULLING THE BELTING TOWARDS THE TAIL PULLEY WITH A 3/4"" ROPE ATTACHED TO THE LACING HOLES W/3 STRANDS OF WIRE. THE PULL ROPE DETACHED FROM THE WIRE & HE FELL BACKWARDS ONTO A CONCRETE SLAB. HE WAS 12'ABOVE THE GROUND, FALL PROTECTION NOT WORN.
Joe Bernert Towing Company IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 6
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2002–2006
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.
- Hunter Sand & Gravel, LLC.1fatal6 total
- Gardenscape of New York1fatal6 total
- R & D Coal Co. Inc.1fatal6 total
- Basic Mining Corp1fatal6 total
- Joe Bernert Towing Company Incthis operator1fatal6 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS1 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND1 non-fatal