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Placer Processing Plant #1 Coal

Coal Equity Inc · Facility

Catlettsburg, Boyd County, KY · NonProducing

MSHA Mine ID: 1508166

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2000–2011
Latest incident: Oct 2011

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$7,144

proposed penalties

$4,279

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	Per 1M hrs
2024 Q4	520	0	0.0
2024 Q3	480	0	0.0
2024 Q2	120	0	0.0
2024 Q1	912	0	0.0
2023 Q4	1,825	1	547.9
2023 Q3	1,453	1	688.2
2023 Q2	7,388	0	0.0
2023 Q1	120	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

2011 · 1 incident

October 18, 2011 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT

Coal Equity Inc · Struck against stationary object

EE was walking to office to go home stepped on about 2" gravel and twisted ankle (right). Came to office & told me (another ee) what had happened and said it was a little sore. Called in the next morning and couldn't walk on it. Had it x-rayed and it was cracked.

2000 · 1 incident

February 9, 2000 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Placer Coal Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING BARGE KICK-OUT COME-A-LONG WHEN THE LEVER SLIPPED FROM RIGHT HAND AND HIT LEFT FOREARM.