Mining Incidents

Unnamed contractor contractor

MSHA contractor ID: V1V
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, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
n/a
Fatalities / million hrs
The recorded deaths predate MSHA's contractor employee-hours data, which begins in 2000, so no rate can be computed.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1988
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
July 27, 1988 WV · Coal Fatality · SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sharples Coal Corp · Fall from ladders

VICTIM WAS CLIMBING A LADDER WHEN LADDER CREELED. VICTIM FELL APPROX. 35' TO GROUND. VICTIM WAS ATTEMPTING TO SECURE THE TOP OF THE LADDER TO THE STEEL BEAM. APPARENTLY, HE LEANED TOO FAR TO T HE LEFT WHILE PERFORMING THIS ACT, CAUSING THE LADDER TO SWAY TO THE LEFT SO FAR THAT THE EMPLOYEE SECURING IT AT THE BOTTOM WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL IT.