Mining Incidents

Nichols Construction Inc contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: PZF
Safety record
1
Fatalities
4
Citations
974,340
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.
1.03
Fatalities / million hrs
4.1 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.