A fatal accident occurred on the longwall face around #144 shield. A ladder line hose got pinched under the toe of the #144 shield. EE did not see hose under shield and initiated the electronic push of the pan-line. The hose that was pinched under the toe of the shield, stretched by movement of pan-line, broke apart and high pressure emulsion fluid struck victim as he traveled by.
American Energy CorporationOperator
- Fatalities
- 2
- Total incidents
- 716
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2001–2020
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
- Alcoa World Alumina LLC3fatal735 total
- American Energy Corporationthis operator2fatal716 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
- MACHINERY2 fatalities · 96 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS257 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON93 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK83 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)69 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE45 non-fatal
Incident timeline
Mines on record
Fatalities under this operator
2 recordedThe victim was leaning over a base lift jack housing. The molded casing catastrophically failed striking the victim in the chest from unknown/undetectable reasons. Cause was catastrophic failure of the housing. Compliance with rules/regs, protective items not a factor, miner proficiency may be a factor, mining equip/systems may be a factor.