Mining Incidents

Mine No. 2 Coal

Controlled by Darvin Rowe
Jolo, Mcdowell County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4608955

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2009–2012
Latest incident
Nov 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
296
citations
53
significant & substantial
$54,043
proposed penalties
$39,552
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
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 2,289 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 4,996 8 3 1601.3
2014 Q3 4,956 10 0 2017.8
2014 Q2 5,254 14 1 2664.6
2014 Q1 4,717 8 0 1696.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 3 incidents

November 17, 2012 WV · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was running a 270 tractor that pulls coal in a ram car and had made a turn thru an intersection and had his right arm hanging out of the deck and over the bumper when the ram car bumped out against the tractor bumper it mashed his arm in between the two resulting in an injury he didn't think he hurt it but it started to swell up and decided to get it checked.

July 3, 2012 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

We were taking a 10' cut by 16' wide out of #5 heading where we were going under a hollow and as we were cleaning up the cut I saw some of the top drip from the rib and we stopped and backed miner out and was going to set some cribs but in about 10 mins. it started to fall from the face out.

March 23, 2012 WV · Coal INUNDATION
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

We were starting a cut in #7 heading and was cutting 10' on right side (curtain side) on blowing vent. When the right corner cut thru into a unknown old mine, there was some water every-one evacuated no one was hurt and no equipment was damaged no ch4 or bad air was in old mine.

2009 · 1 incident

November 9, 2009 WV · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Resurrection Coal Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

After taking a cut right hand break out of the #7 entry the miner moved to another cut and the bolter operater seen the place was working and backed the bolter out and called for the boss and the place started working more and then fell starting from the inter into the right brk. they had just started the fall was approx. 8 ft wide, 4-5 ft thick and about 25 ft long.