Chas Coal Inc.: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Coal

MSHA contractor ID: J114

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 2
Citations: 400
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.: n/a
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

MACHINERY 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2004

1 (1f)

Mines worked

Calvary No. 80 KY

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

February 3, 2004 KY · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor Fatality · MACHINERY

Calvary Coal Co. Inc · Fall from machine

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING AN AERIAL BOOM TRUCK INSIDE THE BUCKET TO DISMANTLE A SHOP BUILDING. THE VICTIM & TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE USING THE BOOM OF THE BUCKET TRUCK TO LIFT UP WOODEN 4X6 POST. THE POST WAS BURIED IN THE GROUND WITH CONCRETE. WHILE LIFTING THE POST, THE VICTIM WAS THROWN OUT OF THE BUCKET WHEN THE POST SUDDENLY RELEASED FROM THE GROUND.