Mining Incidents

Sassy Coal Co., Inc.Mining Incidents in 2006

All MSHA-reportable accidents at Sassy Coal Co., Inc. operations in 2006. Fatalities appear first.

Fatalities in 2006
1
Total incidents
2
Year
2006

Top incident classifications

  1. 01POWERED HAULAGE2 incidents

All incidents in 2006

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

A truck driver loaded the 1984 Ford LT9000 truck, then proceeded down the access road and then for some unknown reason, he got out or left the cab of the truck which therefore led to bodily injury and death (fatality) to himself approximately 100 feet from bottom of hill.

Struck by falling object

While EE was laying in scoop bucket using rock duster hose, scoop bucket hit hyman beam jack, beam fell but steel rope caught it. EE said it hit his back a little

Other years on record

Source: US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) accident records, kept current weekly. Operator identity is MSHA's operator_id on the accident record; records are scoped to Sassy Coal Co., Inc.'s numeric MSHA operator ID.