Mining Incidents

PORTERFIELD & SON TRUCKING: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: FEP
Safety record
1
Fatalities
0
Citations
0
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1992
1
1990
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
July 30, 1990 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Pride Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS HAULING COAL TO A PREPARATION PLANT WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND WENT OVER AN EMBANKMENT. EMPLOYEE WAS THROWN FROM TRUCK AND FATALLY INJURED. IT WAS DETE RMINED DURING AN INVESTIGATION THAT THIS WAS NOTDUE TO ROAD CONDITIONS OR MALFUNCTIONS TO THE TRUCK.