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#2 Coal

B & K Coal Inc · Underground

Controlled by Bee Handshoe

Eastern, Floyd County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1519334

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2009
Latest incident: Jul 2009

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2008

citations

significant & substantial

$11,985

proposed penalties

$4,496

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
2009 Q4	0	0	0
2009 Q3	3,370	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	15,305	24	14	1568.1
2009 Q1	14,599	35	10	2397.4
2008 Q4	11,358	7	3	616.3

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 2 incidents

July 31, 2009 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK

B & K Coal Inc · Struck by falling object

Rock fell from roof and landed on upper back (4' x 4' x 2' thick). Employee struck head on rock on ground.

May 9, 2009 KY · Coal INUNDATION

B & K Coal Inc · Accident type, without injuries

After 9 days of rain & 5.75" of rain on Saturday May 9, 2009 and upon further exploration of the mine. Water had entered the mine filling a low area and some of the face area. The water traveled by the face by penetrating some stoppings and traveled the low area of the mine. The mine was not working due to area flooding.