Mining Incidents

Bledsoe Coal CorporationOperator

Controlled by James River Coal Company
MSHA Operator ID: P23317
Fatalities
2
Total incidents
691
Mines on record
16
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.

Fatality-count percentile
73th

More recorded fatalities than 73% of operators on file.

Rank
#172of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
1.2×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
2
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

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 · 38 non-fatal
  • FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL1 fatality · 9 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS213 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK197 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)75 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY69 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2014
8
2013
16
2012
21
2011
33
2010
46 (1f)
2009
26
2008
36
2007
52
2006
60
2005
64
2004
65
2003
50 (1f)
2002
69
2001
58
2000
87

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
Struck by falling object

Injury was cleaning gob in 3 left with continous miner, he started backing out of crosscut when corner of rib rolled off on him receiving a fatal injury to his upper torso. Size of rib striking he was approx. 4'L x 36""W x 16"" thick.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS INADVERTANTLY OVER RAN BY A SCOOP.