Mining Incidents

Ranger Contracting Inc: 1 recorded fatality 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. Hours and rates here cover 2000 on; contractor hours from 1983 to 1999 are on record but not counted in them.
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
1
2000
2 (1f)
1999
2
1995
3

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.