Mining Incidents

Law River Company, LLCOperator

Controlled by L W Hamilton; Warren Hylton
MSHA Operator ID: 0050418
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
5
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2006–2014

Safety benchmark

Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.

Fatality-count percentile
0th

More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.

Rank
#270of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
0.6×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
1
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.

For counsel + compliance teams

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under Law River Company, LLC. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

Top causes

  • OTHER1 fatality
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON2 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
1 (1f)
2013
1
2008
1
2006
2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Drowning

Security guard fell or slipped from the cab of his personal vehicle into a shallow diversion ditch at the base of a berm along a roadway. He was found with his face submerged in approx 12"" of water. The death was drowning & that a contributory condition was marked alcohol intoxication. The case was not determined to be chargeable until December 22, 2014.