Mining Incidents

Shop Branch Mine Coal

Lodestar Energy Inc · Surface
Controlled by Iracoal Incorporated
Ivel, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517928

MSHA record for Shop Branch Mine (mine ID 1517928). 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
1997
Latest incident
Jun 1997
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1997 · 1 incident

June 23, 1997 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Lodestar Energy Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS OPERATING A DOZER IN SHOT ROCK. HE ALLEGES HIS BACK STARTED TO HURT WHEN HE BACKED THE DOZER OVER A ROCK AND WAS SHAKEN. IT WAS NOT KNOW EE HAD SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF VACAT ION SCHEDULING.

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