Contact with electrical current
EE WAS FATALLY ELECTROCRATED AS HE DISASSEMBLED A CONVEYOR BELT STARTING BOX SOURCE OF POWER CAUSING DEATH IN UNKNOWN AT THAT TIME.
Blue Diamond Coal CoOperator
Controlled by James River Coal Company
MSHA Operator ID: P24585
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 620
- Mines on record
- 10
- 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.
This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Cargill Salt4fatal637 total
- Five Star Mining Inc2fatal602 total
- Blue Diamond Coal Companythis operator2fatal620 total
- Dolese Brothers Company1fatal624 total
- Carmeuse Lime and Stone, Inc.1fatal600 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 65 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 3 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK174 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS155 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)58 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON50 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2014
36
2013
26
2012
30
2011
18
2010
17
2009
16
2008
36
2007
31
2006
51
2005
59
2004
23
2003
30
2002
45
2001
103 (1f)
2000
99 (1f)
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedStruck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
EMPLOYEE WAS CAUGHT BY THE AUGER OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER RESULTING IN FATAL INJURIES.