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: 1 recorded fatality operator
Controlled by
Kirchoff Virgil & J Gordon Forsyth
MSHA operator ID: P06520
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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 recordedFor insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Williamson 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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