Mining Incidents

Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc operator

Controlled by Roger E West
MSHA operator ID: P09304
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
13
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1989–1993

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Incident timeline

1993
3 (1f)
1992
3
1991
2
1990
2
1989
3

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
June 4, 1993 TN · Coal Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Sugar Ridge Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

VICTIM WAS TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON I-75 WHEN FLYING MATERIAL STRUCK THE VECHILE IN WHICH HE WAS A PASSENGER RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES. THE FLYING MATERIAL WAS DIRT OR MUD WHICH WAS DISPELLED FROM A SURFACE MINE WHICH WAS IN THE PROCESS OFBLASTING THIS MATERIAL WAS THROWN APPROX. 240 FT FROM THE BLAST SITE TO THE VECHILE. CHARCEABILITY IS BEING LOOKED INTO.

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