Mining Incidents

Nichols Construction Inc: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: PZF
Safety record
1
Fatalities
4
Citations
1,002,726
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.
1.00
Fatalities / million hrs
4.0 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2006
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
May 4, 2006 VA · Coal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Consolidation Coal Company · Contact with electrical current

The employee came into contact with a guy wire, which broke loose and came in contact with an energized condutor on the pole. There was no insulator or proper anchor on the guy wire, this caused the employee to be electrocuted.