Mining Incidents

Benjamin Coal Company operator

Controlled by David J Benjamin
MSHA operator ID: P00106
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
345
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1983–1989

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1989
11
1988
39
1987
58
1986
83 (1f)
1985
43
1984
57
1983
54

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
June 17, 1986 PA · Coal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Benjamin Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AT 2:25 PM A CR9W WORKING AT THE JOB SITE SET OFF A BLAST WHILE I.NAME WAS SEATED IN HIS PICKUP TRUCK ABOUT 300 FEET AWAY, DOWN OVER A LARGE EMBANKMENT FROM THE BLAST AREA. AS THE CHARGE WAS D ETONATED, I.NAM9 LOOKED UP SAW DEBRIS FALLING TOWARD HIM AND CALLED OUT TO WARN OTHERS NEAR HIM. A LARGE CHUNK OF CLAY-ROCK STRUCK THE ROOF OF THE TRUCKS CAB, CAVING IT IN, KILLING I.NAME INS

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