Mining Incidents

White Oak Mining & Construction Company Inc operator

Controlled by Iracoal Incorporated
MSHA operator ID: P22482
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
163
Mines on record
2
Years on record
1994–1999

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Incident timeline

1999
7
1998
10
1997
25
1996
27
1995
51 (2f)
1994
43

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
December 19, 1995 UT · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
White Oak Mining & Construction Company Inc · Struck by falling object

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING THE MATERIAL HAULER WITH ANOTHER EE, AS A PASSENGER. AS THEY WERE TRAVELING DOWN AT A 5-8% GRADE, THE OPERATOR APPARENTLY TOOK THE MACHINE OUT OF GEAR TO TRAVEL MORE Q UICKLY. HE HAD TROUBLE GETTING THE MACHINE BACK IN GEAR. PASSENGER JUMPED SAFELY. TEH TRIP PROCEEDED 300 FT DOWN THE ROAD. THE OPERATOR EITHER JUMPED OR WAS THROWN AND RUN OVER BY THE EIMCO.

March 24, 1995 UT · Coal apprentice, trainee Fatality · MACHINERY
White Oak Mining & Construction Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS PINCHED BETWEEN THE CONTINUOUS MINER AND THE MINE RIB WHEN THE MACHINE WAS BEING MOVED IN THE 3RD RIGHT SECTION.

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