A miner was fatally injured when the supply car on which they were sitting was struck by a locomotive, causing them to fall where they were crushed between the coupler and deck of the supply car.
Tunnel Ridge, LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 499
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2009–2026
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 0% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
- Calmat Company3fatal490 total
- Knight Hawk Coal, LLC2fatal501 total
- AMFIRE Mining Company, LLC2fatal505 total
- Hecla Limited2fatal492 total
- Tunnel Ridge, LLCthis operator1fatal499 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 · 25 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS176 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON73 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)66 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK58 non-fatal
- MACHINERY55 non-fatal