ALLEGANY WIRELINE SERVICES INC: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: PNB

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.: 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

ELECTRICAL 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1993

1 (1f)

Mines worked

Virginia Pocahontas 6 VA

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

April 9, 1993 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · ELECTRICAL

Garden Creek Pocahontas Company · Contact with electrical current

WORKING AT VENTILATION WELL 192-B, EE WAS ASSISTING WITH THE RIG UP OF WIRELINE SERVICE EQUIPMENT TO PERFORM PLUGGING OPERATIONS ON THE WELL. THE POWER LINES OVER HEAD WERE REPEATEDLY SAID TO HAVE BEEN DEENERGIZED BY ISLAND CREEK PERSONEL ON THE MORNING OF THE ACCIDENT WHEN RAISING THE PORTABLE MAST ABOVE THE WELL HEAD, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH ONE POWER LINE THAT WAS STILL ENERGIZED.