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.
White Buck Coal CompanyOperator
- 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.
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.
- ICG Beckley LLC2fatal300 total
- White Buck Coal Companythis operator2fatal300 total
- Round Mountain Gold Corporation1fatal301 total
- Ramaco Resources, LLC1fatal301 total
- Freeport-McMoRan Tyrone Inc1fatal302 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
- 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEE 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.