Mining Incidents

Howell Family Trucking Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: JPN
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, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
n/a
Fatalities / million hrs
The recorded deaths predate MSHA's contractor employee-hours data, which begins in 2000, so no rate can be computed.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1997
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
February 15, 1997 MO · Metal/Non-Metal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Lone Star Industries Inc · Struck by falling object

EE WAS OPERATING A JOHN DEERE HYDRAULIC BACKHOE (792 MOVING LOOSE UNCONSOLIDATED MAATERIAL BACK FROM NEAR THE FOOT OF A HIGHWALL FACE. THIS MATERIAL WAS BEING REMOVED TO PROVIDE ACCESS FOR A SAFETY EXAMINATION OF AN EXPOSED PORTION O AN UNDERGROUND MINE. APPARENTLY, MATERIAL FROM THE HIGHWALL FACE BROKE AWAY ANDMOVED OUT FROM THE FACE STRIKING THE CAB OF THE BACKHOE. IT IS ESTIM