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Big Mountain #1 Surface Coal

Peabody Coal Company · Surface

Controlled by Hanson PLC

Prenter, Boone County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4602512

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 5
Years on record: 1987–1990
Latest incident: Feb 1990

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1990 · 1 incident

February 6, 1990 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Peabody Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE STATED HE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM A TRUCK WHEN HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS BACK. EMPLOYEE WORKED UNTIL 2-12-90. HE WENT TO DOCTOR AND BEGAN MISSING AT THIS POINT.

1987 · 4 incidents

June 30, 1987 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DISORDERS (REPEATED TRAUMA)

Peabody Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

HEARING IMPAIRM9NT

June 26, 1987 WV · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS

Peabody Coal Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

UNKNOWN ALLEGED3LUNG IMPAIRMENT.

June 18, 1987 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS

Peabody Coal Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

UNKNOWN ALLEGED3LUNG IMPAIRMENT

March 20, 1987 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS

Peabody Coal Company · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

UNKNOWN/ALLEGED3LUNG IMPAIRMENT.