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Buffalo Creek Surface Mine Coal

Joshua Enterprises Inc · Surface

Controlled by Ron D Bowling

Pikeville, Pike County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1518960

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2006
Latest incident: Nov 2006

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2007

citations

significant & substantial

$5,424

proposed penalties

$2,479

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
2008 Q2	0	0	0
2008 Q1	5,368	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	12,952	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	8,200	8	2	975.6
2006 Q4	4,588	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	0	0	0
2006 Q2	0	0	0
2006 Q1	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

1 on file

2006 · 1 incident

November 14, 2006 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Joshua Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was shoveling drill cuttings into a blasthole with a hand shovel on 11/14/06. Employee got out of bed the next morning and felt stiffness in his lower back. Employee went to the doctor and then reported the injury to company personnel on 11/15/06. Doctor advised employee that he had a strained back and that he should remain off-duty until 11/17/06.