Mining Incidents

#3 Coal

LA Energy LLC · Underground
Controlled by Vhonda Dotson
Langley, Knott County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518659

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2007–2009
Latest incident
Jul 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
344
citations
110
significant & substantial
$93,435
proposed penalties
$14,832
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
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2010 Q1 1,307 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,828 9 2 1149.7
2009 Q3 6,446 32 9 4964.3
2009 Q2 4,013 13 4 3239.5
2009 Q1 7,269 15 2 2063.6
2008 Q4 7,417 17 12 2292.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2009 · 1 incident

July 13, 2009 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
LA Energy LLC · Struck against stationary object

Employee was busting rock at section loading point with a sledge hammer. He swung the hammer and his hand hit the feeder and broke the bone at the end of his finger.

2008 · 2 incidents

June 20, 2008 KY · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
LA Energy LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee reached over top of scoop while scoop was still energized. When he sat back down in the operator's deck, his body caught the steering lever causing scoop to steer itself under low roof, catching employee's body between roof and the scoop.

May 8, 2008 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT
LA Energy LLC · Rubbed or abraded

EE was crawling back to ATRS controls on bolter and twisted his left knee.

2007 · 1 incident

August 18, 2007 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
LA Energy LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was drilling a hole in roof to install a roof bolt when a small piece of rock broke loose from roof and fell on his hand and drill pot of bolter breaking the middle finger on his left hand.