Ranger Contracting Inc contractor

Coal

MSHA contractor ID: RUM

Safety record

1
Fatalities: 158
Citations: 645,241
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.: 1.55
Fatalities / million hrs

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

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

Top causes

FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 2 non-fatal
MACHINERY 2 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 1 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001

2000

2 (1f)

1999

1995

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded

May 24, 2000 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Martin County Coal Corp · Struck by falling object

THE DECEASED WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER MOVING COAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYER BELT WHEN A PORTION OF HIGHWALL FAILED AND STRUCK THE LOADER. ONLY A FEW SECONDS OF WARNING WAS GIVEN PRIOR TO THE FAILURE. THE PORTION OF HIGHWALL THAT FELL MEASURED APPROX 160 FT LONG BY UP TO 60 FT HIGH AND THE THICKNESS RANGED FROM FEATHEREDGED TO 10 FT.