Employee walked up to the 7-2C header to inspect wipers. The victim was on an elevated catwalk at discharge of the 7-2B conveyor belt to examine the belt wiper. He fell off the end of catwalk on 7-2B belt. Employee was caught between the skirt and the top belt resulting in a fatal injury.
Jim Walter Resources IncOperator
- Fatalities
- 21
- Total incidents
- 2,258
- Mines on record
- 7
- Years on record
- 2000–2016
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 100% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Jim Walter Resources Incthis operator21fatal2,258 total
- VULCAN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, LP11fatal2,443 total
- Newmont USA Limited9fatal1,962 total
- Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC3fatal2,081 total
- The American Coal Company1fatal2,054 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 · 63 non-fatal
- OTHER1 fatality · 16 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS292 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON185 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)100 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK99 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
21 recordedEmployee was traveling #2 Longwall Bleeders and when he did not check in, we sent someone in to look for him. He was found unresponsive with no vital signs. The cause of death is still being investigated.