Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Driver was at parked truck (#5 lot) to start pre-shift inspection. Truck started to move. Driver fell under the truck and truck ran over driver's legs from about the knee area down.
Carter Roag Coal CompanyOperator
Controlled by Metinvest B V
MSHA Operator ID: 0055797
- Fatalities
- 5
- Total incidents
- 271
- Mines on record
- 5
- Years on record
- 2005–2023
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 97% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
5
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- Carter Roag Coal Companythis operator5fatal271 total
- Rockhouse Energy Mining Company3fatal274 total
- Reading Anthracite Company3fatal265 total
- Rinker Materials Of Florida, Inc.2fatal268 total
- Westmoreland Rosebud Mining LLC1fatal272 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 HAULAGE4 fatalities · 18 non-fatal
- EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK91 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS35 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON29 non-fatal
- HOISTING23 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2023
4
2022
12
2021
10 (1f)
2020
16
2019
18
2018
13 (1f)
2017
29 (1f)
2016
18
2015
13
2014
22
2013
10
2012
12
2011
12
2010
14
2009
13
2008
8
2007
9 (1f)
2006
19 (1f)
2005
19
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
5 recordedStruck by flying object
Employee, and six other employees, was traveling from the west mains section to the surface at end of their shift on a ten person diesel mantrip when a 50-ton roof jack struck the employee on the right side of the head. Employee was immediately transported to the surface and flown to Ruby Memorial Hospital. Employee passed away on the evening of 6/5/18.
Fall onto or against objects
The employee was found unresponsive at approximately 2:05 PM on the offside of the #1 belt at the portal entrance of the surface mine. Preliminary findings has determined the employee received fatal injuries when coming in contact with the belt conveyor.
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Victim was discovered caught between the conveyor belt and the continuous haulage dolley. Although the coroner report is not available, it appeared that the victim expired from injuries received from the event.
Struck by flying object
Employee deliberately disobeyed warnings to cease welding on inflated floatation tire rim ten minutes before tire blew up. Heat from welding plus compression of air in tire equals massive explosion.