Mining Incidents

Kem Coal Inc operator

Controlled by Williams Companies Inc
MSHA operator ID: P17005
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
62
Mines on record
4
Years on record
1986–1995

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Incident timeline

1995
3 (1f)
1994
5
1993
13
1992
9
1991
3
1990
2
1989
14
1988
2
1987
4
1986
7

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
April 12, 1995 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Kem Coal Inc · Struck by powered moving object

THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY LOADING OR HAULAGE MINING EQUIPMENT AS HE WAS CROSSING THE MINE ROAD. A CO-WORKER DISCOVERED THE BODY IN THE ROADWAY NEAR HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO WITNESS ES & IT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED:[A] THE EXACT MACHINE INVOLVED, [B] WHETHER OR NOT THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OR IF HE HAD COLLASPED DUE TO A PHYSICAL PROBLEM JUST PRIOR TO BEING STRUCK.

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