Struck by powered moving object
As employee was eating lunch in the pump house, a truck hit pump house causing fatal injuries.
Bell County Coal CorporationOperator
Controlled by James River Coal Company
MSHA Operator ID: P19841
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 250
- Mines on record
- 8
- Years on record
- 2000–2014
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 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
3
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Bell County Coal Corporationthis operator3fatal250 total
- Stillhouse Mining, LLC2fatal249 total
- Giant Cement Company1fatal249 total
- Enterprise Mining Company, LLC1fatal249 total
- Capitol Aggregates, Inc.1fatal252 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 HAULAGE2 fatalities · 20 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 98 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS39 non-fatal
- MACHINERY33 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)18 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON15 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2014
2
2013
8
2012
9
2011
22
2010
15
2009
11
2008
31
2007
29
2006
18
2005
26 (2f)
2004
9 (1f)
2003
9
2002
14
2001
24
2000
23
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedStruck by powered moving object
Truck rolled into pump house where employees were eating lunch. Employee was fatally injured.
Struck by falling object
A FATAL FALL OF ROOF ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE 003 WORKING SECTION. THE VICTIM WAS WORKING WITH THE SECTION CREW AND HAD BEEN INSTALLING TIMBERS DURING RETREAT MINING. THE CREW HAD TEMPORARILY HALTED PRODUCTION TO OBSERVE THE MINE ROOF, WHEN WITH LITTLE WARNING THE MINE ROOF BEGAN TO COLLAPSE. THE 5 MINERS RAN TO ESCAPE THE ROOF FALL. FOUR OF THE MINERS ESCAPED.