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Richmond David D: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C10593

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1983

Top causes

FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1983

1 (1f)

Operators under this controller

Shady Spring Coal Company Inc 1

Mines on record

No 5 Mine WV

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

August 16, 1983 WV · Coal continuous miner helper, coal mole helper, bridgeman Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK

Shady Spring Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

MINER OPERATOR WAS BACKING OUT OF NO. 3 FACE. MR. WILBER SAWYERS AND HIS IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR MR. AARON SAWYERS WERE TIMBERING THE IMMEDIATE FACE AREA. A LARGE SLIP IN THE ROOF FELL AND FATALL Y INJURED MR. WILBER SAWYERS.

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Where Richmond David D 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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