Mining Incidents

Dennis Mccoy & Sons Inc contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: 8WY
Safety record
1
Fatalities
81
Citations
1,500,195
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.
0.67
Fatalities / million hrs
54.0 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 · 1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
  • DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA) 1 non-fatal
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
1 (1f)
2012
1
2006
1
2005
1
2001
1
2000
4
1999
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
October 18, 2014 WY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Peabody Powder River Mining LLC · Struck against a moving object

Details & conditions are currently under investigation.