EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TO KNOCK OUT A STOPPING BETWEEN ENTRIES & CLEAN UP BLOCKS & OTHER MATERIAL. WHILE SCOOPING, THE BUCKET PICKED UP A 20' SECTION OF 4"" DIAMETER HARD PLASTIC PIPE WITH A METAL COUPLING ON ONE END. THE END OF THE PIPE OPPOSITE THE OPERATOR HIT THE RIB & THE COUPLING END CAUGHT THE INNER CORNER OF THE BUCKET ON THEOPERATOR'S SIDE, BOWED & STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.
AEP Kentucky Coal, L. L. C.Operator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 123
- Mines on record
- 13
- Years on record
- 2001–2006
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C.this operator2fatal123 total
- Bluff City Minerals, LLC1fatal123 total
- Eagle Picher Filtration & Minerals Inc1fatal123 total
- Dolet Hills Lignite Company LLC1fatal122 total
- Mountain Spring Coal Company1fatal122 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE2 fatalities · 7 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK42 non-fatal
- MACHINERY23 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS21 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)9 non-fatal
- NO VALUE FOUND7 non-fatal