Mining Incidents

Swanee Coal

Controlled by Charles E Yates
Isom, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1511192

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1987–1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

1989 · 2 incidents

September 15, 1989 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPER END LOADER INPILE OF COAL BUCKET STRUCK SOLID OBJECT, MOVED FORWARD, STRIKING L KNEE ON GEARSHIFT HOLDER.

1988 · 4 incidents

December 30, 1988 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RED FOX EMPLOYEE WORKING ON SOUTH EAST SITE WAS CLEANING DUST SCREENS WHEN HIS LOWER BACK STARTED HURTING. THIS WAS A RECCURENCE FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY.

October 6, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS SHOVELING BELT LINE & GOT SHOVEL CAUGHT AND SHOVEL HIT HAND

March 31, 1988 KY · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

RECEIVED CLAIM FOR FEDERAL BLACK LUNG BENEFITS.

1987 · 4 incidents

April 24, 1987 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WAS BOLTING LAS7 SECTION OF WASHER COAL STACKER BELT IN PLACE AND PULLING STRUCTURE IN LINE WHEN HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

April 13, 1987 KY · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

GOT A PC. OF ST9EL IN HIS LEFT EYE ON 4-13-87 AND THIS WAS NOT REPORTED TO SAFETY DEPARTMENT UNTIL 4-29-87. HE DID GO TO DR. CAUDILL TO HAVE THE FOREIGN BODY REMOVED.