Mining Incidents

Kentucky River Enterprises Inc contractor

Coal
MSHA contractor ID: Y9U
Safety record
1
Fatalities
21
Citations
166,237
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.
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Fatalities / million hrs
126.3 citations per million contractor employee-hours, 2000 to present.
Source: MSHA contractor employment/production and accident records, updated weekly.

Top causes

  • POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY 8 non-fatal
  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 4 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS 3 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2006
1
2005
1
2002
2
2001
1
2000
1
1999
1
1997
1
1996
1
1995
2
1993
3
1992
2
1991
1 (1f)
1990
1

Mines worked

Recorded fatalities

1 recorded
December 4, 1991 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Kentucky Criterion Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

SUPERVISOR & TWO EMPLS WERE PREPARING TO MOUNT PIN ON BUCKET TO BOOM ALREADY LOWERED OF DIGGER DERRICK TRUCK. AS SUPERVISOR ATTEMPTED TO POSITION 1 TON FLATBED TRUCK CARRYING PIN ON BUCKET INJ EMPL WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN TIP OF BOOM & FLATBED TRUCK WHEN HE SUSTAINED SEVERE INTERNAL ABDOMINAL INJ. INJ EMPL SUCCUMED IN OPERATING ROOM OF HOSPITAL.