Contact with hot objects or substances
A scraper and a service truck collided head-on while traveling in opposite directions on a haul road. The impact ignited a fire to both equipment and resulted in fatal injuries to the service truck driver.
Peabody Western Coal CompanyOperator
Controlled by Peabody Energy Corporation
MSHA Operator ID: P24169
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 197
- Mines on record
- 2
- Period
- —
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 24 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS61 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON43 non-fatal
- MACHINERY22 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)20 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2025
1
2024
1
2023
1
2020
1
2019
4
2018
7
2017
4
2016
4
2015
11
2014
11
2013
7
2012
5
2011
12 (1f)
2010
4
2009
3
2008
6
2007
7
2006
17 (1f)
2005
11
2004
20
2003
13
2002
19
2001
11
2000
17
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedContact with electrical current
The electrician was in the process of trouble shooting an electrical problem in the line of power feeding the 8200 Dragline. At the time of the accident the victim was in the KM-12 junction box when he contacted live electrical components resulting in fatal injuries.