Mining Incidents

Powers Branch Coal

G & P Contractors Inc · Underground
Controlled by David Grubb
Gausdale, Whitley County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518276

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2001
Latest incident
Apr 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
66
citations
20
significant & substantial
$4,401
proposed penalties
$4,401
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 S&S Per 1M hrs
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 6,853 5 1 729.6
2002 Q3 9,065 4 0 441.3
2002 Q2 2,862 8 1 2795.2
2002 Q1 9,310 8 6 859.3
2001 Q4 9,950 5 1 502.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

April 6, 2001 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
G & P Contractors Inc · Struck against stationary object

JEEP OPERATOR WAS OPERATING JEEP AND LOST HIS HAT AND LIGHT AND HIT A RIB WITH HIS HEAD. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD 24 STITCHES ABOVERIGHT EYE. KEPT OVERNIGHT.