Mining Incidents

M & W Coal Company Inc operator

MSHA operator ID: P15013
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Mines on record
1
Years on record
1983

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1983
1 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
October 14, 1983 TN · Coal motorman, motor person, swamper, switchman, locomotive operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
M & W Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

VICTIM WAS TRAMMING BATTERY-POWERED TRACTOR PULLING 4 LOADED CARS FROM WORKING FACE TO SURFACE.FOUND LYING BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD CARS 1 MI FROM FACE.VICTIMS CAP-LAMP CORD WAS BROKEN AND APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY WHEEL OF 1ST LOADED CAR PULLING HIM FROM OPERATOR COMPARTMENTBENEATH WHEEL OL LOADED CAR.

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