Mining Incidents

Bates Contracting & Constructi contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: 5UF
Safety record
1
Fatalities
17
Citations
1,240,364
Employee-hours (2000+)
Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
0.81
Fatalities / million hrs
13.7 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 20 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 10 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 8 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal
  • OTHER 4 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2015
1
2014
1
2012
1
2011
3
2010
1
2009
3
2008
3 (1f)
2006
4
2005
15
2004
21
2003
2
2002
2
2001
6
2000
3

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
January 8, 2008 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Cumberland River Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Hauler backed over the outslope. The hauler traveled approximately 150 feet down the spoil pile. The operator was ejected from the cab of the hauler. Operator was a contract worker.