Mining Incidents

Progress CoalOperator

Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
MSHA Operator ID: P24044
Fatalities
3
Total incidents
196
Mines on record
3
Period
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Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 20 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY1 fatality · 29 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON47 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS45 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)23 non-fatal
  • NO VALUE FOUND7 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2013
5
2012
6
2011
11
2010
11
2009
12
2008
20
2007
21
2006
29
2005
14
2004
4
2003
16 (2f)
2002
25
2001
15 (1f)
2000
7

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

3 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

PORTAL VAN PULLED IN FRONT OF A 190 EUCLID ROCK TRUCK. ROCK TRUCK PULLED INTO VAN, CRUSHING THE VAN. IT WAS DARK AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

PORTAL VAN PULLED IN FRONT OF A 190 EUCLID ROCK TRUCK. THE TRUCK PULLED INTO THE VAN, CRUSHING THE VAN. IT WAS DARK AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE ENTERED THE MANLIFT TO BE LOWERED TO THE GROUND, AS THE MANLIFT BEGAN TO DESCEND THE SUPPORT TUBE BROKE AND IT APPEARS TO HAVE STRUCK HE IN THIS HEAD. EMT'S ADMINISTERED FIRST AID AT THE JO B SITE UNTIL HEALTH NET WHERE HE PAST AWAY.