Mining Incidents

Matrix Design Group: 1 recorded fatality contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: L777
Safety record
1
Fatalities
14
Citations
80
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

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality

Incident timeline

2008
1 (1f)

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
December 11, 2008 KY · Coal electrician helper Fatality · MACHINERY
Warrior Coal, LLC · Struck against stationary object

Victim was in operation of Genie S-85 aerial lift when the lift became caught on exterior wall girt of building under construction. In an attempt to free the caught basket the machine's boom reacted after the basket came free, resulting in the victim's head receiving injuries which were fatal.