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Poor Fork Strip Mine No 1 Coal

Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · Surface

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources Holdings, Inc

Whitwell, Sequatchie County, TN · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4002885

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 1986–1997
Latest incident: Sep 1997

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

1997 · 1 incident

September 30, 1997 TN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE

Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TNT DODGE TRUCK STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARD. EE TRIED TO JUMP I AND STOP TRUCK BUT ENDED UP PINNED BETWEEN TRUCK DOOR AND THE FRONT END OF THE TNT MACK TRUCK.

1991 · 1 incident

August 21, 1991 TN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

CUTTING PLASTIC PIPE WITH KNIFE IT SLIPPED CUT L INDEX FINGER 3 STITCHES

1987 · 1 incident

August 19, 1987 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS RU3NING OVER VERY UNEVEN GROUND STEPPED IN HOLE WITH LEFT FOOT

1986 · 1 incident

June 18, 1986 TN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company · Fall from machine

EE WAS CLIMBING3DOWN FROM A WATER TRUCK FOOT STEPPED FELL BACKWARDS TO GROUND.