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Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Amvest Corporation

MSHA operator ID: P11636

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 323
Mines on record: 7
Years on record: 1983–1997

Top causes

MACHINERY 1 fatality · 43 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 84 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 83 non-fatal
HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 32 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 30 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 29 non-fatal

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Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

September 2, 1992 VA · Coal continuous miner helper, coal mole helper, bridgeman Fatality · MACHINERY

Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

VICTIM WAS TRAMMING THE CONTINUOUS MINER INTO A WORKING PLACE WHILE HE WAS POSITIONED IN THE DECK OF THE MACHINE. AS HE TRAMMED INTO THE PLACE, ANOTHER EE INFORMED HIM THAT THE MACHINE WAS CON TACTNG THE LINE CURTAIN INSTALLED IN THE PLACE. THE VICTIM APPARENTLY MOVED THE MACHINE IN REVERSE AND CAUGHT HIS HEAD BETWEEN THE COAL RIB AND MACHINES CANOPY.

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Where Powell Mountain Coal Company Inc 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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