Mining Incidents

#1 Surface Coal

Controlled by Quesenberry Gerald
Travelers Rest, Owsley County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1512137

MSHA record for #1 Surface (mine ID 1512137). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1989 · 2 incidents

September 8, 1989 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ace Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

TAKING SNAP RING OFF SHAFT PC OF METAL FLEW OFF LODGED IN R EYE

August 24, 1989 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Ace Coal Company Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND I NAME WAS WALKING UP A HILL TO GET HIS LOADER WHEN HIS FEET FLEW OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE HURT HIS LEG

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The full compliance file on #1 Surface

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.