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CHM 10 Coal

Contract Highwall Mining LLC · Surface

Controlled by F D Justice II; Greg Henzman

Meadow Creek, Whitley County, KY · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1519187

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2020
Latest incident: Jan 2020

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

135

citations

significant & substantial

$28,260

proposed penalties

$27,912

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
2025 Q4	3,958	0	0.0
2025 Q3	3,841	0	0.0
2025 Q2	4,369	0	0.0
2025 Q1	5,374	0	0.0
2024 Q4	5,207	3	576.1
2024 Q3	4,116	0	0.0
2024 Q2	6,174	1	162.0
2024 Q1	5,494	2	364.0

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

2020 · 1 incident

January 7, 2020 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Contract Highwall Mining LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

The employee was unloading a gas cylinder from the back of a truck. The employee knew that they were supposed to report an accident/injury, but failed to do so until 1/23/2020. The employee went to a Hospital in Hazard, KY complaining of back pain and was then transferred to another Hospital in Lexington, KY.