Mining Incidents

Silver Fox Surface Mine Coal

Paramont Coal Corp · Surface
Controlled by Pittston Company
Dante, Dickenson County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406870

MSHA record for Silver Fox Surface Mine (mine ID 4406870). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1997
Latest incident
Dec 1997
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1997 · 2 incidents

December 8, 1997 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Paramont Coal Corp · Struck against a moving object

THIS ALLEGED ACC. HAPPENED ON 12-8-97, WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING ROCK WITH A DRON DOZER, BLADES OF DOZER CLIMBED ROCK, RAISING DOZEER OFF OF GROUND, DOZER CAME DOWN ADN JARRED EMPLLOYEE THUS A LLEGELLY HURTING HIS BACK WHICH CAUSED A HERNIATED DISC, AND JARRED EMPLOYEE THUS ALLEGELLY HURTING HIS BACK WHICH CAUSED A HERNIATED DISC, NUMBNESS IN RIGHT LEG AND RIGHT FOOT. THIS ALLEGED

June 24, 1997 VA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Paramont Coal Corp · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO RAISE CRUSHER LID WITH A DIRT SHOVEL SHOVEL SLIPPED AND MASHED AUGER BETWEEN HANDRAIL AND SHOVEL HANDLE.

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