Struck by powered moving object
The victim was fatally injured when ejected from the operator's compartment of a diesel scoop after the scoop was struck by a locomotive that had lost control of a trip of supplies along the 41 Butt track haulage.
Alliance Resource Partners LPController
MSHA Controller ID: C15455
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 1,000
- Mines on record
- 14
- Period
- —
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 83 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 157 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS322 non-fatal
- MACHINERY135 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON106 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)85 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
54
2025
228 (1f)
2024
242
2023
302 (1f)
2022
174 (1f)
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedStruck by falling object
The fatally injured miner and co-workers were in the process of building cribs during recovery of a longwall shield when unconsolidated rocks fell through the roof mesh and struck the miner.
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
A miner was fatally injured when the supply car on which they were sitting was struck by a locomotive, causing them to fall where they were crushed between the coupler and deck of the supply car.