On 7/29/16, employee and co-worker were re-welding guards over the drive shaft of the turbine pump located on the surface above the #3 Shaft. Shortly after welding was completed, an ignition occurred in the #3 Shaft and employee received significant burns and lacerations. The investigation of this event is on-going. Employee died from the injuries on 8/4/16.
Spartan Mining Company, LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 4
- Total incidents
- 1,251
- Mines on record
- 24
- 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.
- Spartan Mining Company, LLCthis operator4fatal1,251 total
- Republic Energy, Inc3fatal1,192 total
- Consol Pennsylvania Coal Company2fatal1,195 total
- Excel Mining, LLC.2fatal1,149 total
- Lehigh Cement Company, LLC1fatal1,278 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
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON1 fatality · 71 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE1 fatality · 47 non-fatal
- IGNITION OR EXPLOSION OF GAS OR DUST1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK407 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS176 non-fatal
- DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS89 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
- Road Fork #51 MineWV
- Mammoth Coal Processing Pl & Riv TippleWV
- Pineville ProcessingWV
- No 130 MineWV
- Big Creek No 2 Surface MineWV
- Mammoth Coal Co. Surface MineWV
- Stockton MineWV
- Laurel Creek/Spirit MineWV
- Diamond EnergyWV
- Ruby EnergyWV
- Winifrede #1 MineWV
- Mammoth #2 GasWV
- Laurel Coalburg Tunnel MineWV
- SlabcampWV
- Coalburg ExtensionWV
- Alloy PowelltonWV
- Hatfield Energy MineWV
- Mine No 8WV
- Shadrick 5 BlockWV
- Marianna No. 1 MineWV
- ROAD FORK #52 MINEWV
Fatalities under this operator
4 recordedWas loading rock out of #7 face. The shuttle car was making the turn out of the entry. EE was caught between the shuttle car and the rib.
Employee and another member were changing a bottom roller on the Cross Hollow belt at the # 130 mine. Injured was laying on the bottom belt changing the roller. The belt suddenly started and traveled approximately 49' before employee fell approximately 39' to the ground. EE passed away on 12/14/07 at 11:30pm.