Struck by powered moving object
The victim was fatally injured when ejected from the operator's compartment of a diesel scoop after the scoop was struck by a locomotive that had lost control of a trip of supplies along the 41 Butt track haulage.
Mettiki Coal WV, LLCOperator
Controlled by Alliance Resource Partners LP
MSHA Operator ID: 0053958
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 424
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2005–2025
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 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
3
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Mettiki Coal WV, LLCthis operator3fatal424 total
- Lodestar Energy, Inc.2fatal431 total
- New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co., Inc.1fatal427 total
- CARMEUSE LIME, INC.1fatal418 total
- Rockhouse Creek Development, LLC1fatal417 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
- POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 33 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS101 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK92 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON84 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)37 non-fatal
- MACHINERY31 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
12 (1f)
2024
7
2023
24
2022
20
2021
13
2020
7
2019
28
2018
22
2017
16
2016
25
2015
19
2014
13 (1f)
2013
21
2012
35
2011
28
2010
13
2009
22
2008
34
2007
33
2006
24
2005
8 (1f)
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedCaught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was caught between the feeder and the coal rib as he was tightening up the chain connecting the feeder to the tailpiece. The crew had just completed moving the belt and was in the process of anchoring and aligning the tailpiece. The tailpiece broke loose and when doing so shifted the tailpiece and feeder towards the off side of the belt, where the employee was positioned.
Struck against a moving object
AT APPROX 12:10 A.M. NOV. 8, 2005 THE OPERATOR OF A MACK TK TANDEM HAUL TRUCK WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN THE TRUCK HE WAS OPERATING EXITED THE HAUL ROAD, RAN THROUGH A GUARD RAIL AND OVERTURNED. THE HAUL ROAD IS LOCATED BETWEEN WV STATE ROUTES 90 & 93. MSHA DID NOT INVESTIGATE THE ACCIDENT AT THE TIME IT OCCURRED. IT WAS BELIEVED MSHA DID NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THE ROAD.