Mining Incidents

Taft Coal Sales & Associates IncorporatedOperator

Controlled by Walter Energy Incorporated
MSHA Operator ID: P22745
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
51
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2001–2014

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.

Fatality-count percentile
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#90of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 19 non-fatal
  • IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS12 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)5 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE4 non-fatal
  • STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT2 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
1
2013
2
2012
3 (1f)
2011
2
2010
2 (1f)
2009
3
2008
3
2007
5
2006
4
2005
9
2004
5
2003
2
2002
6
2001
4

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Fall from machine

Employee was climbing up ladder onto Rock Truck when his feet slipped out from under him causing him to fall to the ground.*** Note added Employee died 12/28/12 from complications related to this injury per fatal ruling/notification on 6/27/13 from MSHA.

Contact with hot objects or substances

The Service Truck Operator was refueling a drill rig when an ignition from an unknown source resulted in fatal burns.