AN EXPLOSION OCCURED IN AN ABANDON PANEL WHERE TWO WORKERS WERE TRANSPORTING BLOCK IN AN S&S SCOOP. THE TWO WERE KILLED AS THE RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION. THE TWO WERE BURNED AND IN AN ATOSPHERE OF CO CARBON MONOXIDE. THEY WERE FOUND APPROX. 12-13 X CUTS INTO THE PANEL. ONE FOUND IN SCOOP BUCKET AND THE OTHER APPROX 10 FEET FROM SCOOP. THE PRESSURE FROM THE EXPLOSIVE HAD BLOWN OUT
Bobby Joe Hensley: 3 recorded fatalities controller
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Top causes
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST 2 fatalities
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 7 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 6 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
- No 9 KY
- Stone Mt Coal #1 KY
- No 10 KY
- Prep Plant KY
- No 5 KY
- No 5 KY
- Dulcimer #2 KY
- Upper Mason #1 KY
- No 5 KY
Fatalities under this controller
3 recordedAN EXPLOSION OCCURED IN AN ABANDON PANEL WHERE TWO WORKERS WERE TRANSPORTING BLOCK IN AN S&S SCOOP. THE TWO WERE KILLED AS THE RESULT OF THE EXPLOSION. THE TWO WERE BURNED AND IN AN ATOSPHERE OF CO CARBON MONOXIDE. THEY WERE FOUND APPROX. 12-13 X CUTS INTO THE PANEL. ONE FOUND IN SCOOP BUCKET AND THE OTHER APPROX 10 FEET FROM SCOOP. THE PRESSURE FROM THE EXPLOSIVE HAD BLOWN OUT
ROOF FALL. A ROCK FELL STRIKING THE SUPERINTENDENT ON THE HEAD KILLING HIM INSTANTLY.
Where Bobby Joe Hensley stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.
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