Mining Incidents

Slip Ridge ContourCoal

Whitesville, Raleigh County, WV · Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609376
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
Jul 2012
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2012 · 1 incident

(Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee went to maintain a PC2000 Excavator fuel and lube. It was noticed he had not came back for lunch. Foreman went to the site to check on him and found him lying face down on the deck of the machine unresponsive.

2011 · 1 incident

Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE LIFTING SHIELD OF THE HIGHWALL MINER THE SHIELD SLIPPED AND CUT EMPLOYEE MIDDLE FINGER OF HIS LEFT HAND

2010 · 1 incident

Struck against a moving object

Employee was trying to turn around a lizard truck in a confined location on the bench while loaded with earthen material and hit a berm causing member to suffer from whip lash.