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Poplar Grove Preparation Plant Coal

Pollard Management Group of Kentucky, LLC · Facility

Controlled by Jason Pollard

Rumsey, Mclean County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1519828

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2018–2019
Latest incident: Aug 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2018

citations

significant & substantial

$3,801

proposed penalties

$3,227

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
2020 Q4	384	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	1,589	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	2,576	1	0	388.2
2020 Q1	3,238	3	0	926.5
2019 Q4	12,496	4	1	320.1
2019 Q3	12,351	1	0	81.0
2019 Q2	7,851	1	0	127.4
2019 Q1	3,567	1	0	280.3

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

2019 · 1 incident

August 12, 2019 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Hartshorne Mining, LLC · Struck against stationary object

Employee was fabricating a new gate for reclaim feeder using plate and steel pipe. When EE went to rotate the gate the steel pipe penetrated the leather glove causing a laceration to EE's right hand. The pipe had been cut with a Dewalt chop saw and the edges had not been ground off.

2018 · 1 incident

October 11, 2018 KY · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Hartshorne Mining, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE lifted counterweight felt pain in groin area on 10/11/18. EE did not report incident in any manner. EE had surgery for hernia on 12/20/18. Initially incident deemed non work related due to lack of reporting and facts. As more facts found injury was deemed work related. Lack of reporting and duration of investigation is reasoning for delay in filing of incident.