THE EMPLOYEE PLACED HIMSELF BETWEEN THE CAB SUPPORTS OVER THE CONVEYOR BOOM. HIS LEG ACTIVATED THE BOOM CONTROL AND THE UPWARD MOVEMENT OF THE BOOM PINCHED HIM BETWEENM THE BOOM AND CAB ROOF
Plateau Mining Company: 3 recorded fatalities operator
Watch this operator
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any Plateau Mining Company mine.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 22 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 fatality
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 10 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 9 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 8 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedAS EMPL ATTEMPTED TO OBSERVE MECHANICAL PROBLEM WITH C.M. PIECE OF ROCK FELL STRIKING EMPL AND PUSHING HIM INTO C.M.
EMPL LEFT DOZER AND WALKED OUT ONTO COAL STOCKPILE SURFACE.SURFACE COLLAPSED INTO DRAW-OFF DOORS,PULLING VICTIM INTO VOID COVERING HIM WITH COAL.
Where Plateau Mining 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.
The federal record itself stays free on this site. What costs money, and why.