Performance Coal CompanyOperator
- Fatalities
- 31
- Total incidents
- 379
- Mines on record
- 3
- Years on record
- 2000–2014
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.
- Performance Coal Company, LLCthis operator31fatal379 total
- Bridger Coal Company4fatal379 total
- Florida Rock Industries, Inc.3fatal377 total
- Brody Mining LLC2fatal378 total
- Crimson Oak Grove Resources LLC1fatal380 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
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST29 fatalities · 4 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 98 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL1 fatality · 1 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS71 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON48 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)37 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
31 recordedVictim died as a result of an explosion, cause unkown at this time. Received notification on 4/5/2010 that our employee was missing. Received notification late 4/6/2010 that employee was deceased.
EMPLOYEE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF REPAIRING #3 SHUTTLE CAR CABLE. POWER TO CABLE HAD BEEN TAGGED & LOCKED OUT. HE WAS DISCOVERED LYING ON HIS BACK & NOT BREATHING. CPR WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT APPROX. 8:20 P.M. MSHA/STATE INVESTIGATIONS ARE INCONCLUSIVE AT THIS TIME.
EE HAD WALKED UP #2 ENTRY & INTO THE BREAKTHROUGH BETWEEN #2 & #3 PILLAR BLOCKS TO WHERE A SCOOP HAD BEEN PARKED. THE FOREMAN & SCOOP OPERATOR WERE IN FRONT OF SCOOP PREPARING TO SET TIMBERS. EE CALLED OUT & ASKED FOREMAN WHERE TO MINE NEXT& FOREMAN NOTICED HIS LIGHT DISAPPEAR. EE WAS DISCOVERED WITH A ROCK(8"" H, 4'W, 6'L) ON HIM. GIVEN FIRST-AID, FLOWN TO HOSP., DIED 2 DAYS LATER.