Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
Employee was operating the 15 ton Brookville track motor and his head was pinned between the canopy on the motor and a beam on an overcast.
Martin Co. Coal CorpOperator
Controlled by Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
MSHA Operator ID: P00908
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 185
- Mines on record
- 19
- Years on record
- 2000–2015
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.
This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- ICG Hazard, LLC2fatal189 total
- Martin County Coal LLCthis operator2fatal185 total
- Coeur Alaska Inc1fatal185 total
- Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP1fatal184 total
- National Coal Corporation1fatal182 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 HAULAGE1 fatality · 11 non-fatal
- FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 5 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK44 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS38 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON22 non-fatal
- MACHINERY20 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2015
1
2014
5
2013
1
2012
9
2011
29 (1f)
2010
17
2009
9
2008
4
2007
3
2006
3
2005
3
2004
11
2003
23
2002
27
2001
19
2000
21 (1f)
Mines on record
- 1-C MineKY
- Preparation PlantKY
- Lee Surface MineKY
- MTR Surface MineKY
- Pegasus MineKY
- Pegasus-Sandlick MineKY
- White Cabin No 5 MineKY
- White Cabin No 6 MineKY
- White Cabin #7KY
- Mudlick MineKY
- Voyager #6KY
- Emily Creek EnergyKY
- White Cabin #8KY
- Voyager #7KY
- MTR Wolf Creek MineKY
- White Oak SouthKY
- White Cabin #9KY
- Caney Shaft SurfaceKY
- Superior Highwall Miner System 54KY
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedStruck by falling object
THE DECEASED WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER MOVING COAL FROM A STACKER CONVEYER BELT WHEN A PORTION OF HIGHWALL FAILED AND STRUCK THE LOADER. ONLY A FEW SECONDS OF WARNING WAS GIVEN PRIOR TO THE FAILURE. THE PORTION OF HIGHWALL THAT FELL MEASURED APPROX 160 FT LONG BY UP TO 60 FT HIGH AND THE THICKNESS RANGED FROM FEATHEREDGED TO 10 FT.