Mining Incidents

Bull Run Surface Mine Coal

Big Bear Mining Inc · Surface
Controlled by Richard W Lindsay II
Coeburn, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407215

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Feb 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
24
citations
9
significant & substantial
$2,837
proposed penalties
$2,537
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 300 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 1,800 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 0 2 2
2009 Q3 5,774 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 8,580 6 2 699.3
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 2 incidents

February 9, 2009 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Big Bear Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was holding a piece of metal on bumper of tool truck and metal fell and smashed fingers between the metal and bumper of truck.

February 4, 2009 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Big Bear Mining Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was stepping out of D6 dozer, he missed the step and fell to the ground twisting his knee.