Employee was standing on the left side catwalk of a 777F rock truck, near the rear of the cab, when the dump bed came down, crushing him between the bed and the catwalk handrail.
Reed Minerals, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 42
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2000–2014
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.
- Spring Creek Coal LLC2fatal41 total
- Reed Minerals, Inc.this operator2fatal42 total
- Simmons Fork Mining, Inc.1fatal42 total
- NR Hamm Quarry LLC1fatal42 total
- Endurance Mining1fatal42 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON15 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS7 non-fatal
- OTHER4 non-fatal
- FIRE1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedThe victim (mechanic) removed fuel injector from engine and then instructed his helper to turn the engine over. Diesel fuel and/or air came out of the 1/4 inch injector hole and struck him in the left eye and entered his brain, causing fatal injury.