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Dingess John: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C10559

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1985

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1985

1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Pana Coals Inc 1

Mines on record

No 1 WV

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

February 20, 1985 WV · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler Fatality · MACHINERY

Pana Coals Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WORKING AROUND RIPPER HEAD CLEANING WATER SPRAYS CLEANING MATERIAL OUT OF THE DECK AREA OF A ENERGIZED MACHINE (CONTINUOUS MINER) FAULT IN THE MINER ELECTRICAL SYSTEM NOT RENDERING THE PANIC B AR TO DE-ENERGIZED THE MACHINE

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Where Dingess John 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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