#2 shuttle car was traveling back toward #5 entry to turn down towards feeder, and the #3 shuttle car was already traveling this entry when the #2 car came thru the fly pad they contacted the operators compartment of the #3 car injuring the operator. The EE died on 2/21/21, autopsy results state EE died as the result of a thromboembolism.
Aracoma Coal CompanyOperator
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 573
- Mines on record
- 9
- Years on record
- 2000–2026
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 94% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- M-Class Mining LLC5fatal562 total
- Aracoma Coal Company, LLCthis operator4fatal573 total
- White County Coal, LLC3fatal578 total
- Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper2fatal572 total
- Lafarge North America, Inc.1fatal567 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
- FIRE2 fatalities · 1 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 49 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 8 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK130 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS109 non-fatal
- DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS67 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedWhile atempting to repair a shuttle car without determining that the trailing cable was de-energized and without locking-out and tagging the power source. EE received fatal injries when he cut into an energized phase lead.
Employee, member of 002 section crew, was evacuating the mine. He became separated from his crew and did not survive mine fire.
Employee, member of 002 section crew, was evacuating the mine. He became separated from his crew and did not survive mine fire.