Mining Incidents

NO. 1 Coal

COALTON MINING INC. · Surface
Controlled by Tommy Jayne
Grethel, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519726

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2017–2020
Latest incident
May 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
319
citations
55
significant & substantial
$55,833
proposed penalties
$32,234
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
2022 Q3 7,279 13 4 1786.0
2022 Q2 7,548 11 4 1457.3
2022 Q1 8,247 4 0 485.0
2021 Q4 6,827 7 1 1025.3
2021 Q3 6,061 8 2 1319.9
2021 Q2 7,354 10 4 1359.8
2021 Q1 7,343 9 4 1225.7
2020 Q4 3,283 3 1 913.8
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2020 · 1 incident

May 21, 2020 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
COALTON MINING INC. · Struck by powered moving object

Miner was crawling near inby corner of tailpiece, when scoop approached to dump, striking the miner on the right lower leg, resulting in compression fractures to right tibia and fibula.

2018 · 1 incident

September 6, 2018 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
MRM Mining, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Pushing bolt up with the bolter, ee was holding the bolt and it slipped out and the plate caught ee hand and cut the palm of ee left hand.

2017 · 1 incident

July 21, 2017 KY · Coal draftsman, surveyor/transit work supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
MRM Mining, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Batteries ran down (no power) on the mantrip vehicle used to transport 2 people (spad crew) to the surface. One of the occupants head/cap got wedged between the mine roof (30' coal hgt.) & the vehicle frame & when machine movement occurred slightly, the occupant received injuries. Diagnosed as concussion and neck muscle strain.