Mining Incidents

Amax Coal Company operator

MSHA operator ID: P00606
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
348
Mines on record
6
Years on record
1983–1998

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Incident timeline

1998
5
1997
4
1996
9
1995
8
1994
7
1993
16
1992
6
1991
18
1990
23 (1f)
1989
26 (1f)
1988
48
1987
52
1986
25
1985
18
1984
38
1983
45

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
October 1, 1990 IN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · MACHINERY
Amax Coal Company · Drowning

I.NAME TRAVELING SOUTH ON TRACTORIN CASS PIT IN WATER 2-3'DEEP TO RETRIEVE PUMP POWER CABLE STRUNG OVER HIGHWALL TO POWER A PUMP.APPARENTLY MISINTERPRETED WHERE DEEP SUMP ACTUALLY LOCATED DUE TO SUMP BEING FLOODED AND DROVE TRACTOR ONTO EDGE OF SUMP CAUSING IT TO TIP & FALL INTO SUMP ON ITS LEFT SIDE IN 12'WATER.

January 6, 1989 IN · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · MACHINERY
Amax Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

OPERATOR REACHED THRU LEFT CAB WINDOWN TO RETRIEVE CHAIN CAUGHT ON BUCKET. HE ACCIDENTALLY STRUCK CONTROL LEVER LOWER BOOM & WAS CRUSHED BET3WEEN B OOM DYLINDER & WINDOW FRAME.

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