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Mine Equipment & Mill Supply Company: 2 recorded fatalities contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: CXJ
Safety record
2
Fatalities
195
Citations
3,170,235
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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.
0.63
Fatalities / million hrs
61.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 2 fatalities
  • DISORDERS (PHYSICAL AGENTS) 1 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 1 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013
1
2011
2 (2f)
2008
1
1999
1
1998
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

2 recorded
October 28, 2011 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Armstrong Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Two employees were in route to begin shift loading holes in #11 Pit. As they traveled into the West end of this pit and attempted to drive up ramp onto work area the highwall collapsed resulting in death to both employees.

October 28, 2011 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Armstrong Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Two employees were in route to begin shift loading holes in #11 Pit. As they traveled into the West end of this pit and attempted to drive up ramp onto work area the highwall collapsed resulting in death to both employees.