Mining Incidents

Beech Creek Mine Coal

Controlled by Phoenix Coal Corporation
Greenville, Muhlenberg County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518377

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2008–2009
Latest incident
Jan 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
52
citations
16
significant & substantial
$6,043
proposed penalties
$6,043
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
2009 Q2 7,129 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 27,671 5 2 180.7
2008 Q4 26,715 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 26,635 2 2 75.1
2008 Q2 29,610 6 1 202.6
2008 Q1 8,940 1 1 111.9
2007 Q4 10,188 2 1 196.3
2007 Q3 9,475 2 0 211.1
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

2009 · 1 incident

January 23, 2009 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
C & R Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Injured party had just rolled a piece of rock off the belt. When he tried to stand up, he felt a pain in his lower back.

2008 · 1 incident

June 26, 2008 KY · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
C & R Coal Company Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Injured party stepped up off the ground to the 1st step on the road grader when his foot slipped, striking his leg against the step.