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Island Fork Construction Ltd contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: PUL
Safety record
3
Fatalities
51
Citations
1,463,119
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.
1.37
Fatalities / million hrs
34.9 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 2 fatalities · 62 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 32 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 118 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE 52 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 48 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 35 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2002
66 (2f)
2001
102
2000
32
1999
20
1998
43
1997
74 (1f)
1996
30
1995
6
1994
2

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

3 recorded
August 12, 2002 WV · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler Fatality · MACHINERY
Titan Mining, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO MOVE A CONT MINER DOWN #5 ENTRY, WATCHING THE SLACK ON THE CABLE. THE MINER TRAMMED OVER AN 8 TO 10 INCH LEDGE IN THE BOTTOM, CAUSING THE MINER BOOM TO SUDDENLY FLY UPWARDS, STRIKING THE ROOF AND CRUSHING THE VICTIM'S HEAD, HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO STAY BACK AND WATCH THE CABLE SLACK AND TO STAY AWAY FROM THE MINER AND MINER BOOM.

February 20, 2002 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Midland Trail Resources LLC · Struck by falling object

ROOF FALL - FATAL - 30'X 30'INTERSECTION - SPAD #1003 - 1XCUT INBY. EE AND CO-WORKER WERE POSITIONED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CONTINUOUS MININGMACHINE WHEN THE ROOF BEGAN TO FALL WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

July 29, 1997 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Stollings Trucking Co., Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS ON EXCAVATOR. HE WAS IN LOOSE ROCK ON HILLSIDE. HE LOST CONTROL WHEN TRACK GOT ON ROCK. THE EXCAVATOR ROLLED PINNING THE EE UNDERNEATH.