Mining Incidents

White Buck Coal CompanyOperator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
MSHA Operator ID: P23460
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
300
Mines on record
5
Years on record
2000–2014

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
#85of 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

  • POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 27 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK112 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS56 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)29 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY29 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON22 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
4
2013
26
2012
13 (1f)
2011
46
2010
34 (1f)
2009
26
2008
19
2007
22
2006
24
2005
15
2004
17
2003
12
2002
9
2001
20
2000
13

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Struck by powered moving object

At Approx. 1:20 am EE, a certified electrician, was fatally injured when he was struck by a maintenance scoop in an intersection of #7 entry on #2 unit during the third shift. Present information suggests that the scoop operator did not observe EE in the intersection prior to the incident due to miscommunication.

Struck by powered moving object

EE was walking from one crosscut outby the face in the #2 entry toward the face of the #2 entry when he was struck by the #1 shuttle car.