Mining Incidents

Mine 21 Coal

White Buck Coal Company · Underground
Summersville, Nicholas County, WV  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4608482

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
Nov 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1
citations
1
significant & substantial
$150
proposed penalties
$150
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q2 0 1 1
2000 Q1 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2000 · 2 incidents

November 17, 2000 WV · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
White Buck Coal Company · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MOVING A CRIB BLOCK THAT WAS SLIPPERY W/MUD BLOCKED SLIPPED CATCHING LEFT THUMB BETWEEN BLOCK & SCRAPPER FRAME

January 31, 2000 WV · Coal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
White Buck Coal Company · Fall from machine

CLIMBING UP LADDER OF CINDER TRUCK. FEET SLIPPED AND HE CAUGHT HIMSELF BY HIS HANDS ON THE RUNG OF THE LADDER. HE HUNG BY HIS ARMS AND THEN LET HIMSELF DOWN TO THE GROUND.