Mining Incidents

Big K, Inc. contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: F20
Safety record
1
Fatalities
149
Citations
191,912
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.
5.21
Fatalities / million hrs
776.4 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 · 3 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal
  • OTHER 1 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2007
1
2005
2 (1f)
1995
1
1986
1
1985
1
1984
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
August 19, 2005 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Bell County Coal Corporation · Struck by powered moving object

As employee was eating lunch in the pump house, a truck hit pump house causing fatal injuries.