Witness saw the water truck traveling downhill on Ridge road & then saw a cloud of dust. Truck traveled downhill(9% grade)struck berm on the right side of road ejected operator changed direction & traveled across road striking the berm/slope on the left side of the road. The truck overturned & came to rest. The victim did not appear to use his seat belt. Minor damage to truck.
Colowyo Coal Company L POperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 113
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2025
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.
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.
- Marigold Mining Co2fatal112 total
- Unimin Minnesota Corporation2fatal114 total
- Compass Minerals America Inc.1fatal114 total
- American Aggregates of Michigan Inc.1fatal115 total
- Colowyo Coal Company L Pthis operator1fatal113 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 · 4 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS35 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON26 non-fatal
- OTHER12 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY10 non-fatal