High Voltage Construction Company: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Coal

MSHA contractor ID: K1F

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 0
Citations: 7,064
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 · 1 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 2 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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1985

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

October 30, 1995 WV · Coal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · MACHINERY

Mingo Logan Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EE WAS CUTTING A 22" DIA. OAK TREE, APPROX.45 FT IN HEIGHT. PRIOR TO CUTTING THIS TREE A 5" DIA. TREE LOCATED UP THE HILL FROM THE 22" OAK HAD BEEN CUT AND WAS LODGED IN THE TOP OF THE 22" OAK . WHEN THE 22" OAK WAS CUT AND BEGAN FALLING THE5" TREE DID NOT FALL FREE, BUT WAS LIFTED WITH THE 22" OAK. THIS ACTION CAUSED THE 5" TREE TO SWING AROUND HITTING EE IN THE HEAD AND KNOCKING