K & B No 5 Coal

K & B Coal Company · Surface

Controlled by Showalter Richard L

Summersville, Nicholas County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4607286

MSHA record for K & B No 5 (mine ID 4607286). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 1990
Latest incident: Jan 1990

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1990 · 1 incident

January 6, 1990 WV · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

K & B Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THREE EMPLOYEES WERE PULLING A WIRE ROPE CABLE WHICH WAS TO BE USE TO PULL A 773 CAT TRUCK OUT OF DITCH. THE CLAIMANT STATES THAT HE AND TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE PULLING A WIRE ROPE CABLE. THE FIRST MAN STOPPED AND THE LOAD SHIFTED TO HIM. AT THAT TIME HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

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