FOREMAN WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN HE WAS CRUSHED WITH THE REAR WHEELS OF A LOADED FORD 9000 COAL TRUCK. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN THE VICTIM BENT OVER TO MOVE A WATER HOSE AND WAS CRUSHED BY T HE REAR WHEELS OF THE COAL TRUCK MOVING IN REVERSE TOWARD THE RAW COAL BINS.
Pittston CompanyController
MSHA Controller ID: C00230
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 373
- Mines on record
- 33
- Years on record
- 2000–2003
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other controllers with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 590 controllers with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of controllers on file.
Position when controllers are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 2.0 fatalities per fatal-history controller.
This controller
1
Industry mean
2
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company; IDACORP4fatal379 total
- Felson Bowman2fatal368 total
- John R Kibblehouse; John B Haines IV2fatal381 total
- Riverstone Group1fatal382 total
- Pittston Companythis controller1fatal373 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA controllers with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 23 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK126 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS79 non-fatal
- MACHINERY52 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON39 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)24 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2003
4
2002
98
2001
126
2000
145 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- Bent Branch PlantKY
- Meathouse EnergyKY
- RCR #1VA
- Greenbrier DockVA
- Prep Plant #2VA
- No 2VA
- McClure River PlantVA
- Roaring Fork No 2 MineVA
- Laurel MountainVA
- Construction/ReclamationVA
- Deep Mine #21VA
- Esserville ShopVA
- Deep Mine #27VA
- Blair MineVA
- Cherokee MineVA
- Georges Fork Surface MineVA
- Silver Creek MineVA
- Seaboard DockVA
- Deep Mine #26VA
- Lovers Gap #3VA
- Black Bear #2 SurfaceVA
- Deep Mine #28VA
- Deep Mine #29VA
- Roaring Fork No. 3VA
- Mine No 3VA
- Black Bear #3VA
- Deep Mine #33VA
- Meadow River No 1 MineWV
- Alloy Surface MineWV
- Big Creek No 2 Surface MineWV
- Molloy-Fayette Highwall Miner (2)WV
- Alloy Prep Plant #1WV
- Monoc #3 Surface MineWV
Fatalities under this controller
1 recordedStruck by powered moving object