Beech Mountain MineCoal
Knox Operating, LLC · Underground
Controlled by Jeffrey K Justus II
Helvetia, Randolph County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609546
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 3
- Years on record
- 2020–2021
- Latest incident
- Dec 2021
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
3 on file2021 · 1 incident
2020 · 2 incidents
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
3 workers were cleaning up and moving items from the ground. A metal rub board was stood up against the continuous miner frame. When it started to fall, the employee grabbed it with left hand. It continued to fall causing employee's hand to come into contact with the miner frame. Bone fracture requiring a cast.
Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
On 4/15/20 employee reported that on 4/11 at about 10:30 am, EE hurt EE's back while helping pull the miner cable. EE states that yesterday and today EE had pain in the right side of EE's lower back after certain body movements. Written off work for 3 days due to back strain.