EMPLOYEE WAS APPARENTLY INSPECTING CONVEYOR BELT TAKE-UP AT 2ND M.NORTH DRIVE WHEN HIS LEFT ARM BECAME ENTANGLED BETWEEN THE BOTTOM BELT AND THE STATIONARY ROLLER, CAUSING AVULSION LEFT ARM AN D FACIAL INJURIES. ACCIDENT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY COMPANY, STATE AND MSHA OFFICIALS. AUTOPSY PENDING.
Ohio Valley Coal Resources, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 910
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2019
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 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Mosaic Phosphates Company2fatal905 total
- River View Coal LLC2fatal932 total
- Essroc Cement Corporation1fatal924 total
- Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners LLC1fatal927 total
- Ohio Valley Coal Resources, Inc.this operator1fatal910 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
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 53 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS310 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON163 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK107 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)88 non-fatal
- MACHINERY78 non-fatal