Mining Incidents

5-F Coal

Belva Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Reading & Bates Corp
Rita, Logan County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4605012

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

March 23, 1983 WV · Coal electrician, lineman STRIKING OR BUMPING
Belva Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING THROUGH A WOODED AREA WHEN A SMALL TREE LIMB STRUCK HIM IN THE LEFT EYE CAUSING EMBEDMENT OF FOREIGN OBJECTS IN EYE ANDSCRASCRATCHES AND LACERATION.