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.
Taft Coal Sales & Associates IncorporatedOperator
- 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.
More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- G S MATERIALS INC2fatal51 total
- Century Energy Corporation2fatal52 total
- Taft Coal Sales & Associates Incorporatedthis operator2fatal51 total
- BYK Additives Inc.1fatal51 total
- Raw Coal Mining Company, Inc.1fatal51 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
- 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedThe Service Truck Operator was refueling a drill rig when an ignition from an unknown source resulted in fatal burns.