Mining Incidents

Bentley Coal Company: 2 recorded fatalities operator

MSHA operator ID: P18097

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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
25
Mines on record
6
Years on record
1988–1991

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Incident timeline

1991
7
1990
11 (1f)
1989
6 (1f)
1988
1

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
September 20, 1990 WV · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Bentley Coal Company · Struck by falling object

FALL OF ROOF ROCK RESULTING IN CRUSHING INJURIES TO UPPER BODY OF EMPLOYEE WHICH RESULTED IN DEATH.

November 9, 1989 WV · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Bentley Coal Company · Drowning

VICTIM BACKED ROCK TRUCK OVER 26 FOOT HIGHWALL INTO PIT AREA WITH 7 FEET OF WATER. INJURY TERMINAL. OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE DEATH CERTIFICATE WILL READ THAT THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS DROWNI NG.

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Where Bentley Coal Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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