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.
Eastern Mingo Coal Company: 2 recorded fatalities operator
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Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 91 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 64 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 26 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 21 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 19 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Bronzite III WV
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEMPLOYEE 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.
Where Eastern Mingo 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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