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W-P Coal Company: 1 recorded fatality operator

Controlled by Ashland Inc et al

MSHA operator ID: P00037

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 124
Mines on record: 4
Years on record: 1983–1993

Top causes

FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL 1 fatality · 4 non-fatal
HANDLING OF MATERIALS 46 non-fatal
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 20 non-fatal
MACHINERY 18 non-fatal
POWERED HAULAGE 15 non-fatal
FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 12 non-fatal

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Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded

November 29, 1983 WV · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

W-P Coal Company · Struck by concussion

MOUNTAIN BUMP CREATING AN OUTBURST OF COAL & THE IMPACT THREW THE INJURED PERSON & HIS HEAD STRUCK THE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE & CAUSED HEAD INJURIES.

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Where W-P Coal 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.

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