Mining Incidents

SOUTHERN BELT & CONVEYOR SERV: 1 recorded fatality contractor

MSHA contractor ID: S8B
Safety record
1
Fatalities
0
Citations
0
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
No rate is shown: this contractor has under 100,000 reported hours since 2000, where the site's contractor rates begin.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • ELECTRICAL 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1987
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
July 3, 1987 IN · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · ELECTRICAL
Laswell Coal Company Inc · Contact with electrical current

THE MAN WAS PUT7ING BELT ON THE OVERLAND CONVEYOR HE WALK UP THE CONVEYOR PULLING A 3/8INCH STEEL CABLE TO HOOK ON TO THE BELT TO PULL THE TWO ENDS TOGETHER HE MADE CONTACT WITH 12470 VOLTS WI TH STEEL CABLE 2E WAS PULLING.