INJURED WAS PUTTING OIL IN THE CENTER GEAR CASE OF THE #11 JOY MINER ON #2 UNIT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK FELL FROM THE ROOF STRIKING INJURED IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS PINNING HIS HEAD ON THE MINER. INJURED RECEIVED SEVERE HEAD INJURIES. INJURED WAS LIFE FLIGHTED FROM THE MINE TO ST MARY'S HOSPITAL IN EVANSVILLE, IND. INJURED DIED ABOUT 6:15 PM ON MAY 23, 2001.
Coal Miners IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 74
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2001
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.
- Double Bonus Coal Company2fatal73 total
- Kopper Glo Mining, LLC1fatal75 total
- Wisconsin Industrial Sand Company, LLC1fatal75 total
- Big River Industries Incorporated1fatal72 total
- Coal Miners Incthis operator1fatal74 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 BACK1 fatality · 18 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS16 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE13 non-fatal
- MACHINERY11 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)6 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 non-fatal