Mining Incidents

Gopher Contracting: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: R828
Safety record
1
Fatalities
13
Citations
2,941
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.
n/a
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

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality
  • FIRE 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2008
2 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
June 3, 2008 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · MACHINERY
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A tree split & fell onto the victim, pinning him between two trees.