OPERATING UTILITY TRUCK ON WHITAKER COAL CORPORATION HAUL ROAD. TRUCK RAN INTO BERM, TURNED ON SIDE AND CAUGHT FIRE.
Whitaker Coal Corp: 3 recorded fatalities operator
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 2 fatalities · 62 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 1 fatality · 132 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 231 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 115 non-fatal
- DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS 91 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 71 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- HZ4-1 KY
- Preparation Plant KY
- Mine #30 KY
- Perry County #1 Strip KY
- Perry County #1 KY
- #3 KY
- Mine #61 KY
- Mine #54 KY
- #51 Surface KY
- Mine #55 KY
- Wahoo Loadout KY
- #44 KY
- Adena No 3 KY
- #45 KY
- No 50 Mine KY
- Perry County #2 KY
- No 47 KY
- #25 KY
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedEMPLOYEE WAS DRIVING A 769 CATERPILLAR ROCK TRUCK HAULING REFUSE TO THE SLURRY POND WHEN HE BACKED UP TO DUMP HIS LOAD THE TRUCK WENT OVER THE EMBANKMENT FLIPPED OVER UPSIDE DOWN OUT IN THE SL URRY POND THE CAB SANK IN THE SLURRY TRAPPING THE DRIVER
EMPLOYEE WAS AT3THE LEFT SIDE OF ROOF BOLTING MACHINE WHEN HE APPARENTLY WENT IN BY THE ATRS SYSTEM WHERE A ROCK FALL OCCURRED CAUSING HIS DEATH.
Where Whitaker Coal Corp 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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