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Lightning Contract Serv Inc contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: 8CV
Safety record
2
Fatalities
39
Citations
4,435,796
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.
0.00
Fatalities / million hrs
8.8 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 · 33 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 32 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 100 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 42 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 34 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 31 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2020
2
2019
7
2018
5
2017
10
2016
3
2015
4
2014
5
2013
9
2011
6
2010
4
2009
3
2008
4
2007
15
2006
28
2005
38
2004
23
2003
16
2002
17
2001
43
2000
38
1999
28 (2f)
1998
7

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded
September 18, 1999 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Copperas Coal Corp · Struck by falling object

EE WAS STANDING BY THE CONTROLS ON THE R-SIDE OF THE MACHINE WHILE THE OPERATOR ON THE LEFT SIDE WAS SETTING THE ATRS. AS THE ATRS WAS PRESSURIZED AGAINST THE TOP. A PIECE OF ROCK 3 1/2 FT. X 5 FT. X 6 IN. FELL FRON THE ATRS BACK TOWARDS THE MACHINE BETWEEN THE R-RIB AND THE BOLTS ON THE R-SIDE STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON THE BACK.

March 12, 1999 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Copperas Coal Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS LEAVING THE SIDE OF THE FEEDER IN #7 ENTRY TO RETURN TO THE MINER HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN UP #8 ENTRY. HE MUST HAVE STARTED HIS TURN TOO LATE WHICH LET THE DECK AREA OF THE CAR STRIKE THE RIB THROWING HIM PARTIALY OUT OF THE CAR CRUSHING HIM BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE SHUTTLE CAR.