Employee placed self on the bumper of the miner below the unsupported conveyor tail boom with the machine still energized. EE apparently was trying to trouble shoot issues with the stab jack by utilizing the remote control functions and in the process inadvertently lowered the tail onto self resulting in fatal crushing injuries.
River View Coal LLCOperator
Controlled by Alliance Resource Partners LP
MSHA Operator ID: 0072463
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 932
- Mines on record
- 3
- Period
- —
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Top causes
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 156 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 83 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS336 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON109 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)94 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK88 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
14
2025
93
2024
85
2023
86
2022
90
2021
66 (1f)
2020
52
2019
54
2018
41
2017
33
2016
31
2015
33
2014
31
2013
37
2012
43
2011
50
2010
53 (1f)
2009
16
2008
20
2007
4
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedCaught in, under or between running or meshing objects
Struck by powered moving object
Employee received fatal injuries from a shuttle car that struck him while hanging a check curtain on the #6 unit, #7 entry, #11 seam. His body was discovered by the car operator upon returning from the feeder. (AN MSHA, STATE AND COMPANY INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.)