A FATAL ROOF FALL OCCURRED TO EE AS HE WAS RUNNING THRU AN INTERSECTION OF #3 ENTRY IN THE 1 LEFT SECTION. HE HAD BEEN SETTING BREAKER POSTS ON THE PILLARLINE WHEN HE HEARD THE TOP RUMBLING AN D HAD MOVED OUTBY ONE BLOCK AND STARTED THRU THECROSSCUT WHEN REACHING THE INTERSECTION, THE ROOF COLLAPSED ON HIM.
Roblee Coal CompanyOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 62
- Mines on record
- 6
- Years on record
- 2000–2008
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 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Bellco Materials Inc2fatal63 total
- Roblee Coal Companythis operator2fatal62 total
- Dakota Granite Company1fatal62 total
- Big Laurel Mining Corporation1fatal61 total
- Fork Creek Mining Company1fatal61 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
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK2 fatalities · 35 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS10 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)6 non-fatal
- MACHINERY4 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON3 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedA ROOF FALL OCCURRED DURING MINING IN THE 5-LEFT WORKING SECTION WHILE CONNECTING THE XCUT BETWEEN NO. 7 AND NO. 8 ENTRIES. THE ROOF FALL RODE BACK THROUGHT THE INSTALLED ROOF BOLTS, STRIKING THE REMOTE CONTROLLED CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR AND MINER HELPER. THE MINER OPERATOR SUSTAINED SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURIES WHILE THE MINER HELPER SUSTAINED FATAL INJURIES.