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Mine No 2 Coal

Phoenix Coal Processing Company LLC · Surface

Controlled by Phoenix Coal Corporation

Greenville, Muhlenberg County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1518728

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 5
Years on record: 2004–2006
Latest incident: May 2006

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

citations

significant & substantial

$2,281

proposed penalties

$2,209

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	Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1	80	0	0.0
2007 Q4	0	0
2007 Q3	0	0
2007 Q2	1,336	0	0.0
2007 Q1	10,585	0	0.0
2006 Q4	18,558	0	0.0
2006 Q3	21,358	1	46.8
2006 Q2	18,333	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2006 · 1 incident

May 31, 2006 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Charolais Coal No. 1 LLC · Fall from machine

EE was climbing down steps of 777 end dump and missed last step.

2005 · 3 incidents

September 1, 2005 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Charolais Coal No. 1 LLC · Fall to lower level, (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Fall, took out a section of grating to access shoot that was cloged. EE forgot about it and stepped off into the hole. He caught himself with his arm and cut it on a piece of grating.

August 2, 2005 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Charolais Coal No. 1 LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS CLIMBING THE LADDER WITH HIS LUNCH BUCKET IN HIS LEFT HAND AND PULLING HIMSELF UP WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.

May 23, 2005 KY · Coal pumper MACHINERY

Charolais Coal No. 1 LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

EMPLOYEE & CO-WORKER WERE CHANGING A TRACK ON 151-D-11. THEY HAD 3 BOLTS LOOSE & THE 4TH BOLT WOULD NOT BREAK LOOSE. EE WAS USING A TORCH TO HEAT THE TRACK LINK & A TRACK PIN FILLER PLUG BLEW OUT OF THE PIN, BLOWING HOT OIL ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS FACE.

2004 · 1 incident

March 19, 2004 KY · Coal electrician, lineman ELECTRICAL

Charolais Coal No. 1 LLC · Flash burns (electric)

As ee attempted to install a cable trip system to a breaker that was energized on the top side, he inadvertantly stuck part of the bracket into the energized wire causing flash burns to his hands and neck.