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.
Bledsoe Coal CorporationOperator
- 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.
More recorded fatalities than 73% 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 Company3fatal704 total
- Long Branch Energy2fatal676 total
- Bledsoe Coal Corporationthis operator2fatal691 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 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
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedEMPLOYEE WAS INADVERTANTLY OVER RAN BY A SCOOP.