Mining Incidents

Mountainside Wash Plant Coal

Controlled by Damian Caldwell
Barbourville, Knox County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519324

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Mountainside Wash Plant.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2011–2016
Latest incident
May 2016
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
115
citations
38
significant & substantial
$14,469
proposed penalties
$13,996
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
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q4 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 1 0
2023 Q2 2,321 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 3,861 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 7,117 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,320 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,399 0 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

6 on file

2016 · 1 incident

May 24, 2016 KY · Coal quality control technician, laboratory technician, laboratory assistant HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

The lab employee was lifting a coal sample bag and pulled or strained their right bicep

2015 · 3 incidents

June 9, 2015 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stepped up onto the push arm of the D65PX-17 Dozer and his muddy boot slipped off of the step and since he was holding onto the grab iron, (handhold), it spun him around straining his back

June 4, 2015 KY · Coal security guard, watchman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on 06/04/2015, employee drove the vehicle to the upper plant gate and as he was locking the gate, he noticed that the vehicle was rolling and as he ran to catch it, he fell injuring his neck and lacerating his forehead.

April 24, 2015 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The packing slip had been removed from a palletized box and in order to ascertain the contents of the box, EE slid the box around and strained his lower back

2014 · 1 incident

November 24, 2014 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman POWERED HAULAGE
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The injured laborer was stabilizing a top perlin across the basket of the man lift which was being operated by another contractor and his arm became trapped between the new building structure and the man lift basket resulting in broken Radius and Ulna bones of the lower left forearm.

2011 · 1 incident

October 5, 2011 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Mountainside Coal Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee was prying on a block of coal in the hopper, employees hand slipped off of the pry bar hitting the corner of the hopper resulting in lacerating his right finger, where he received four stitches.