Mining Incidents

#1 Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

H I C O Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Lanham Roy
Jellico, Whitley County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1516155

MSHA record for #1 Mine (mine ID 1516155). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1988
Latest incident
Aug 1988
Ownership history
  1. H I C O Coal Company 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

#1 Mine sits in Whitley County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.0% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Whitley County, Kentucky · Population 36,755
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$41,719
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1988 · 1 incident

August 23, 1988 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner POWERED HAULAGE
H I C O Coal Company · Struck against a moving object

MINE FOREMAN WAS DRIVING SCOOP FROM IN THE MINE TO THE OUTSIDE WHEN HE RAN UPON A ROCK JERKING THE STIRRING WHEEL OUT OF HIS HAND & KNOCKING HIS RT.HAND FINGER INTO THE STEERING WHEEL BREAKING HIS MIDDLE FINGER