← All operators

J W Coal Company operator

Controlled by Adkins Willard

MSHA operator ID: P14436

Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 1
Mines on record: 1
Years on record: 1983

Top causes

POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality

Incident timeline

1983

1 (1f)

Mines on record

No 1 KY

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

September 2, 1983 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

J W Coal Company · Struck by falling object

AN ELKHORN AR-4 BATTERY SCOOP OPERATED BY VICTIM WAS BEING TRAMMED FROM THE SCOOP PILE LEVEL TO THE MINE PORTAL LEVEL ON THE SURFACE NEAR THE TOP OF THE INCLINE RAODWAY. THE SCOOP STARTED TO ROLL BACKWARDS DOWNGRADE & STRUCK THE UPPER HILLSIDE BANK. A LARGE BOULDER WAS DISLODGED & FELL ON TO THE OPERATOR COMPARTMENT STRIKING & IMPALING THE VICTIM ON THE END OF T HE DEENERGIZEIN

Watch this operator

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any J W Coal Company mine.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on J W Coal Company

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

Get the report ($149) See a sample report Monitor a whole book of operators, $99/mo