Mining Incidents

South Fork Energy Company operator

Controlled by Amvest Corporation
MSHA operator ID: P18274
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
3
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1989

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1989
3 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
December 20, 1989 VA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
South Fork Energy Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE TRUCK DRIVER WAS FATALLY INJURED DURING A MECHANICAL FAILURE OF THE VEHICLE DRIVE LINE. FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, THE DRIVER EXITED THE DRIVER'S COMPARTMENT AND BECAME ENTANGLED IN THE LEFT FRONT WHEEL OF THE MOVING VEHICLE AS THE VEHICLE DESCENDED BACKWARDS DOWN AN ELEVEN PERCENT GRADE.

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