Mining Incidents

Mine # 1 Coal

Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Underground
Cumberland, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519430

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
Jun 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
181
citations
34
significant & substantial
$48,546
proposed penalties
$38,754
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
2012 Q2 12,082 35 9 2896.9
2012 Q1 16,211 27 5 1665.5
2011 Q4 16,786 14 4 834.0
2011 Q3 15,538 18 2 1158.5
2011 Q2 14,681 17 1 1158.0
2011 Q1 15,276 6 0 392.8
2010 Q4 13,396 13 2 970.4
2010 Q3 14,100 21 4 1489.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

June 1, 2012 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall #4 intersection 160' inby spad#990 Ribs were sloughing bad were prutting up 8' rope bolts pizza pans.

March 19, 2012 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Struck by falling object

EE was roof bolting on 3/19/2012. A piece of rib fell and hit his left ankle. He did not want an ambulance and just went home. The next day on 3/20/2012 at 3:30PM he went to a clinic and was diagnosed with a broken ankle. Tough guy.

2011 · 1 incident

2010 · 1 incident

July 21, 2010 KY · Coal transit man, surveyor/transit worker HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee was attempting to remove stuck bolt with a hammer. A piece of steel from the hammer chipped off and entered the employee's left thumb joint.