Around 1:30 in the morning a miner was found pinned between two rail cars on the haulage level.
Chevron Mining IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 704
- Mines on record
- 5
- 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 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Mingo Logan Coal LLC4fatal700 total
- Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Companythis operator3fatal704 total
- American Energy Corporation2fatal716 total
- Bledsoe Coal Corporation2fatal691 total
- Hopkins County Coal, LLC1fatal699 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 · 34 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 105 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS169 non-fatal
- HOISTING114 non-fatal
- MACHINERY68 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)63 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedEE stated he had been to #3 rock bin to inspect the chute of #4 refuse belt. Witness: EE was on the 1st or 2nd step of a small ladder w/backward fall protection when he ""blacked out"".*He slipped from ladder landing on feet & fell on his back*. He never lost consciousness. We are waiting for medical records to determine the cause.*On 12/18/07 he had surgery & he died on 12/19/07*
Employee was discovered by section foreman caught in the pick breaker on the Stamler feeder. He suffered fatal injuries to his lower chest and mid torso.