Mining Incidents

No 6 Surface Mine Coal

Nix Mining Company · Surface
Controlled by Costain Group PLC
Summersville, Nicholas County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4606161

MSHA record for No 6 Surface Mine (mine ID 4606161). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
1988–1990
Latest incident
Jun 1990
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

1990 · 1 incident

June 27, 1990 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech FIRE
Nix Mining Company · Contact with hot objects or substances

I NAME INJURED HIS HAND ON 06-26-90 HIS LEFT HAND WAS BANDAGED ON 06-27-90 I NAME SPRAYED ETHER TO START A 988B LOADER APPROX 30MINS LATER HE LIT A CIGARETTE WHICH CAUGHT THE BANDAGE WHICH HAD BEEN COATED BY ETHER ON FIRE I NAME THEN BURNEDHIS RT HAND TRYING TO REMOVE BANDAGE OFF LEFT HAND

1989 · 1 incident

October 31, 1989 WV · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
Nix Mining Company · Struck by falling object

EMPL HAD EARLIER REMOVED COAL CHANNEL SAMPLE FROM HIGHWALL & PLACED IT ALONG HIGHWALL. AT APPROX 8:00 PM EMPL & ANOTHER STARTED PLACING SAMPLE IN BAGS FOR TRANSPORT. AT APPROX 8:15 EMPL WAS ST RUCK BY ROCK WHICH FELL FROM HIGHWALL.

1988 · 1 incident

January 5, 1988 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
W & G Construction Company Inc · Fall from machine

EMPL. WAS SERVICING A CAT 988B LOADER, STANDING ON SIDE OF LOADER HE SLIPPED & FELL ONTO GROUND, LANDING ON HIS RIGHT ARM & BRUISING HIM UP.

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The full compliance file on No 6 Surface Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.