Wellmore Coal Corp contractor

Coal

MSHA contractor ID: RI6

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 4
Citations: 254,189
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.: 0.00
Fatalities / million hrs

15.7 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.

Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

ELECTRICAL 1 fatality
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 7 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 4 non-fatal
OTHER 2 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
MACHINERY 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

September 7, 1983 KY · Coal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL

A & R Coal Corp · Contact with electrical current

TROUBLESHOOTING-REPAIR WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED ON SURFACE ELCTRICAL SUBSTATION (POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZED TO LOW VOLTAGE CONTROL CIRCUIT ON WHICH ACTUAL WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED). EMPLOYEE WAS U NDER NO DIRECT WORK ASSIGNMENT AT THE TIME, BUT FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON (SPECULATED HE WAS RETRIEVING A DROPPED POCKET KNIFE) HE STEPPED INSIDE THE SUBSTATION AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGI