Mining Incidents

Boyd Company contractor

Metal / nonmetal
MSHA contractor ID: C1571
Safety record
1
Fatalities
22
Citations
178,524
Employee-hours (2000+)
Rates use contractor-reported employee-hours as the denominator. About 2% of reported hours are dropped as duplicate filings, so the hours total runs slightly low and any per-hour rate reads slightly high. Quarters filed with zero hours are excluded, and hours are reported only from 2000 on.
5.60
Fatalities / million hrs
123.2 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • MACHINERY 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 9 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 4 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 4 non-fatal
  • STRIKING OR BUMPING 2 non-fatal
  • FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS 1 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
4 (1f)
2025
4
2024
8
2023
3
2022
4
2021
3

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
May 20, 2026 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech Fatality · MACHINERY
Pine Branch Mining LLC · Struck by falling object

EE and another employee were pulling the engine and removing nose cone on the radiator. EE was on the bottom under the 992g wheel loader. The other employee was on top of the machine. EE was taking the radiator nose off, accidentally took bolts out of counter weights and it fell on EE. Resulting in a fatality.