Mining Incidents

Weston Engineering Inc contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: WT9
Safety record
1
Fatalities
10
Citations
53,935
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

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2011
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
September 1, 2011 WY · Coal drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY
Peabody Powder River Mining LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Drill crew was attempting to back off a stuck drill pipe. A wire rope snub line was used to secure the worm tong. The snub line failed and the tong struck the employee resulting in fatal injuries.