Mining Incidents

Midwest Coal CompanyOperator

Controlled by Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated
MSHA Operator ID: P24019
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Mines on record
1
Period
For counsel + compliance teams

Get an email the moment a new MSHA-reportable accident lands at any mine on file under Midwest Coal Company. Useful for 105(c) defense intake, FMSHRC docket prep, and active client monitoring.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality
  • FIRE1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2001
1
2000
1 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
Struck by falling object

AT APPROXIMATELY 3:20PM ON 9/17/00 A FATAL POWERHAULAGE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN EE AGE 57, WAS STRUCK BY FALLING HEAVY METAL PARTS. EE WAS OPERATING A BATTERY POWERED STANDUP FORK LIFT WHEN THE MATERIAL FELL FROM AN OVERHEAD STORAGE RACK. A NOTHER CONTR EE HEARD THE SOUND OF FALLING MATERIAL & SAW THAT EE HAD BEEN INJURED. EE NOTIFIED THE MINE SECURITY GUARD WHO NOTIFIED THE CLAY CO