A dragline oiler had been walking the 1570 dragline. He was last seen near the end of a walkway and was later found between the shoe and the revolving frame. There were no witnesses to the event. The employee was fatally injured.
Dolet Hills Lignite Company LLCOperator
- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 122
- Mines on record
- 1
- Years on record
- 2001–2023
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.
- AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C.2fatal123 total
- Mountain Spring Coal Company1fatal122 total
- Freeport McMoRan Miami Inc1fatal122 total
- Bluff City Minerals, LLC1fatal123 total
- Dolet Hills Lignite Company LLCthis operator1fatal122 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
- MACHINERY1 fatality · 23 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS33 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON26 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)13 non-fatal
- FIRE9 non-fatal
- OTHER4 non-fatal