← All controllers

K Q Chedester: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C02527

Watch this controller

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any mine K Q Chedester controls.

Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 100
Mines on record: 3
Years on record: 1983–1994

Top causes

EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 39 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 24 non-fatal
MACHINERY 13 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 7 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 5 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

13 (1f)

1987

1986

1985

1984

1983

Operators under this controller

Colquest Energy Inc 98
Kopper-Glo Fuel Inc 2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

February 29, 1988 TN · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor Fatality · EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE

Colquest Energy Inc · Struck by flying object

THE TWO EMPLOYEES WERE REPLACING THE PINION SEALS ON A SCOOP,ELKHORN AR-4 OUTSIDE AT OUT NEW DOUBLE Q MINES.THEY WERE HAVING TROUBLE REMOVING A NUT THAT SECURES THE PINION SO THEY DECIDED TO T AKE A TORCH AND HEAT THE NUT TO LOOSEN IT.THE INJURED EMPLOYEE,(NAME),ATTEMPTED TO LIGHT THE TORCH BUT IT WOULD NOT LIGHT.THEY DECIDED THAT THE ACETYLENE TANK WAS EMPTY SO THE DECEASED EMPLOY

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

Where K Q Chedester 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.

The federal record itself stays free on this site. What costs money, and why.

See a sample report Need a different cut of the data? Ask us