Mining Incidents

Mine No 1 Coal

Papaw Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Mark S Wooten
Clinchco, Dickenson County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4406916

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
1998–1999
Latest incident
Dec 1999
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q1 612 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

1999 · 5 incidents

December 16, 1999 VA · Coal clerk, timekeeper, office worker, director of sales POWERED HAULAGE
Papaw Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE DRIVER STATED THAT THE TRUCK JUMPED OUT OF GEAR. HE HIT HIS BRAKES & DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD NONE.

November 12, 1999 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Papaw Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

REMOVING PINNER STEEL FROM ROOF WITH PIN WRENCH AND STEEL.

October 11, 1999 VA · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Papaw Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE SAID HE WAS LIFTING HYD PUMP FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

April 9, 1999 VA · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator MACHINERY
J Cress Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object

CUTTING ROCK AND MINER ROCKED AND DROPPED DOWN, HURTING HIS BACK.

1998 · 1 incident

September 11, 1998 VA · Coal scoop car operator MACHINERY
Fleetwood Energy Inc · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS MOVING BOLTMACHINE CABLE OVER TO THE RIB WHEN THE OPERATOR TURNED THE CABLE REEL ON STRIKING HIM AND PINNING HIM ON THE COAL RIB. COMPLAINED OF BACK HURTING.