EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A WATER TRUCK WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND OVERTURNED. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE VICTIM WAS TRAPPED UNDER THE TRUCK. THE VICTIM WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE BODY WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BREATHITT COUNTY CORONER & THEN TO FRANKFORT FOR AUTOPSY.
Miller Bros Coal LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 45
- Mines on record
- 17
- Years on record
- 2005–2009
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.
- Plateau Mining Corporation2fatal45 total
- Genesis Inc1fatal46 total
- Sunrise Coal Company LLC1fatal44 total
- Century Operations, LLC1fatal46 total
- Miller Brothers Coal LLCthis operator1fatal45 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 HAULAGE1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS10 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY10 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)4 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 non-fatal