Mining Incidents

Eastern Mingo Coal Company: 2 recorded fatalities operator

Controlled by Shell Oil Company
MSHA operator ID: P19259

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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
257
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1987–1992

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Incident timeline

1992
94
1991
62 (1f)
1990
35
1989
23 (1f)
1988
38
1987
5

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
June 17, 1991 WV · Coal welder Fatality · FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Eastern Mingo Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

AN ON GOING CO INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT PRELIMINARY FINDINGS INDICATE THAT THE ACCIDENT RESULT FROM A SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED RELEASE OF SLURRED MATERIAL FROM THE TUBE 60 INCH 300 FT BORHOLE INTO THE CHUTE AND BIN BELOW.

December 7, 1989 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Eastern Mingo Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE WAS ROOF BOLTING ON 004 SECTION 4 LEFT CROSS CUT WHEN A PIECE OF ROCK MEASURING 4'9" X 8'2" X 0-6" THICK FELL INBY LAST ROW OF BOLTS BREAKING BACK INTO LAST ROW OF BOLTS 10" STRIKING EMPLOYEE ON TOP OF HEAD CAUSING FATAL INJURY DUE TO MASSIVE HEAD INJURY.

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Where Eastern Mingo Coal Company stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

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