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Garden Creek Pocahontas Company: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Occidental Petroleum Corp

MSHA operator ID: P09291

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 439
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1983–1993

Top causes

ELECTRICAL 1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 175 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 56 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 43 non-fatal
MACHINERY 41 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 30 non-fatal

Incident timeline

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Mines on record

Virginia Pocahontas 6 VA

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

April 9, 1993 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer Fatality · ELECTRICAL

Garden Creek Pocahontas Company · Contact with electrical current

WORKING AT VENTILATION WELL 192-B, EE WAS ASSISTING WITH THE RIG UP OF WIRELINE SERVICE EQUIPMENT TO PERFORM PLUGGING OPERATIONS ON THE WELL. THE POWER LINES OVER HEAD WERE REPEATEDLY SAID TO HAVE BEEN DEENERGIZED BY ISLAND CREEK PERSONEL ON THE MORNING OF THE ACCIDENT WHEN RAISING THE PORTABLE MAST ABOVE THE WELL HEAD, CONTACT WAS MADE WITH ONE POWER LINE THAT WAS STILL ENERGIZED.

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