Mining Incidents

Little Joe Trucking Inc. contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: V2A
Safety record
1
Fatalities
66
Citations
494,292
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
133.5 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 5 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 4 non-fatal
  • EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2002
3
2001
1
2000
1
1999
7
1998
2
1997
2
1993
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
April 23, 1993 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Catenary Coal Company LLC · Struck against a moving object

VICTIM WAS DRIVING A LOADED COAL TRUCK DOWN A ELEVATED ROAD WAY AND APPARENTLY TRIED TO SHIFT GEAR HE GO THE TRUCK IN NEUTRAL AND COULD NOT GET IT BACK IN GEAR WHILE GAINING EXCESSIVE SPEED.HE DROVE THE TRUCK INTO A STOCK PILE KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.