The victim had traveled inby permanent roof support in the #3 entry right crosscut #4 and a section of draw rock fell in the unsupported area fatally injuring the victim. The continuous miner was cutting into #3 right crosscut from the #4 entry when the draw rock fell out on miner and victim.
South Central Coal Company, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 155
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2003–2016
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.
More recorded fatalities than 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Hobet Mining Inc2fatal157 total
- J M Huber Corporation1fatal155 total
- Lehigh Hanson ECC, Inc.1fatal153 total
- Hycroft Resources & Development, LLC1fatal157 total
- South Central Coal Company, Inc.this operator1fatal155 total
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.
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Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 62 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON23 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS21 non-fatal
- MACHINERY14 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE12 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)10 non-fatal