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B J & L Coal Company Inc operator

Controlled by Tackett Jeromia & Pauline

MSHA operator ID: P08344

Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1985

Top causes

FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1985

1 (1f)

Mines on record

No 1 KY

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

September 9, 1985 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK

B J & L Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

THE VICTIM WAS OPERATING A BATTERY-POWERED SCOOP CLEANING ROADWAY COAL AT THE NO. 2 BLOCK ON FIRST RIGHT PANEL. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED WHEN A PORTION OF THE MINE ROOF, MEASURING 30 INCHES THICK A MINUMUM OF 20 FT IN WIDTH, AND EXTENDING AN UNDETERMINED DISTANCE, FELL STRIKING THE VICTIM AND SCOOP. THE HEIGHT OF THE COAL WAS 39 INCHES.

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