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Vance Don: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C08826

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 7
Mines on record: 2
Years on record: 1983–1987

Top causes

EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 fatality
MACHINERY 4 non-fatal
FIRE 1 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

1987

1986

1 (1f)

1984

1983

Operators under this controller

Denart Coal Company Inc 7

Mines on record

No 2 WV
No 1 WV

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded

April 18, 1986 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE

Denart Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

MOUNTING TRUCK 7IRE ON WHEEL - TIRE AND RIM BLEW APART - RIM STRUCK VICTIM IN HAD

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Where Vance Don 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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