An employee was working on a winch rope on a 650 scoop that was loaded with a shield, this shield was hit by another 650 scoop, causing the employee to be caught between the scoop he was working on and the shield tip.
Ohio County Coal Resources, Inc.Operator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 281
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2020–2026
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.
- Kanawha Eagle Mining, LLC2fatal279 total
- Ohio County Coal Resources, Inc.this operator2fatal281 total
- Imerys Marble Inc1fatal279 total
- Quikrete Construction Materials, LLC1fatal285 total
- Buchanan Minerals, LLC1fatal286 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 34 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 11 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS95 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK65 non-fatal
- MACHINERY29 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)17 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEmployee fell from 28 feet. On top of 400 conveyor belt on 5th floor of preparation plant. Fell to 4th floor.