Mining Incidents

Tri-Star Mining IncOperator

Controlled by George R Beener
MSHA Operator ID: P18063
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
21
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2003–2025

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.

Fatality-count percentile
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#184of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL2 fatalities
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS4 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2025
1
2022
1
2019
1
2017
1
2016
1
2014
1
2013
2
2011
2
2010
1
2009
1
2007
5 (2f)
2006
1
2005
2
2003
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A highwall measuring approx 150' long, 180' high, & 75' wide collapsed resulting in fatal injuries to 2 miners that were working beneath the highwall. One was operating an excavator & the other was operating a bulldozer. Examination of the remaining highwall indicates the highwall failure originated at the toe of the columnar section above the Pittsburgh Big Vein coal seam.

Caught in, under or between collapsing material or buildings

A highwall measuring approx 150' long, 180' high, & 75' wide collapsed resulting in fatal injuries to 2 miners that were working beneath the highwall. One was operating an excavator & the other was operating a bulldozer. Examination of the remaining highwall indicates the highwall failure originated at the toe of the columnar section above the Pittsburgh Big Vein coal seam.