Williamson Coal Company · Drowning
STARTING UP THE 6\\ PUMP,PLASTIC HOSE BLEW INTO //// OUT.THE PRESSURE FROM THE PUMP PUSHED EMPL INTO THE WATER.EMPL WAS IN 10-12\ WATER AND COULD NOT SWIM.WENT DOWN AND DROWNED.
Williamson Coal Company operator
Controlled by
Kirchoff Virgil & J Gordon Forsyth
MSHA operator ID: P06520
Top causes
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE 1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 5 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 3 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 2 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
1986
1
1985
4
1984
2
1983
5 (1f)
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
1 recordedWatch this operator
Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at any Williamson Coal Company mine.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
The full compliance file on Williamson Coal Company
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.