Mining Incidents

Medford Trucking, LLC contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: B106
Safety record
2
Fatalities
241
Citations
884,371
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.
2.26
Fatalities / million hrs
272.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 1 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 6 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 2 non-fatal
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal
  • STRIKING OR BUMPING 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013
1
2012
2
2011
2
2010
4 (1f)
2009
2 (1f)
2008
1
2007
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded
December 4, 2010 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Investigation is still going on at this time. Per preliminary report: Descending the coal haul road, victim began to lose brakes. He attempted to straddle an axle berm on his left. The truck ran up onto the berm for approximately 100' before it turned over. Victim was found partly out of the passenger side door beneath the right exaust stack. Unable to remove him until EMS arrived.

February 6, 2009 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Republic Energy, Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Truck out of control, driver not wearing seatbelt, ejected & crushed.