EE was backing (rear lights on) on a 636 Long Airdox Shield Hauler 1 break out by the long wall face at cross cut #88 into the #3 left cross cut where he ran over an airlock door top beam which was hidden in the mud. The rear tire hit the beam resulting in the end rising, and entering the operator's compartment causing crushing injuries.
Rockhouse Energy Mining CompanyOperator
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 274
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2000–2011
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.
- Carter Roag Coal Company5fatal271 total
- Rockhouse Energy Mining Companythis operator3fatal274 total
- Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC2fatal279 total
- Westmoreland Rosebud Mining LLC1fatal272 total
- Imerys Marble Inc1fatal279 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 · 76 non-fatal
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 26 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 19 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS71 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)26 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON24 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Mine #1KY
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedEMPLOYEE, A SECTION FOREMAN ON THE 001-0 MMU WAS IN THE PROCESS OF BACKING A JOY, 12-12, REMOTE CONTROLLED MINER OUT OF THE 2-LEFT CROSSCUT IN ORDER FOR THE SCOOP OPERATOR TO CLEAN THE #2 HEADING. EE WAS STRUCK BY THE BOOM AND PINNED INTO THE RIGHT RIB.
EE & 3 CO-WORKERS WERE INSTALLING WOODEN CRIBS TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE CONT. MINER. AS THE 4 MEN WERE INSTALLING THE CRIBS, A PIECE OF DRAW ROCK MEASURING 11 1/2 FT LONG, 8FT WIDE, & 1""-12"" THI CK FELL, STRIKING A FATAL BLOW TO EE