Mining Incidents

#2: 5 reportable incidents Coal

Serendipity Mining Inc · Underground
Controlled by Clark Edgar N
Bryants Store, Knox County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1516838

MSHA record for #2 (mine ID 1516838). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1991–1993
Latest incident
Jun 1993
Ownership history
  1. Serendipity Mining Inc 1990 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

#2 sits in Knox County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 2.8% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Knox County, Kentucky · Population 30,034
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$33,153
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1993 · 3 incidents

June 8, 1993 KY · Coal motorman, motor person, swamper, switchman, locomotive operator POWERED HAULAGE
Serendipity Mining Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

TRACTOR PULLING CARS- WAS SPINNING- OPERATOR REACHED OUT TO THROW DUST UNDER WHEEL CAUSING HIM TO TURN AND RAISING UP HITTING ROOF AND PUSHING HIM IN STEERING WHEEL BRUISING RIB.

April 29, 1993 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Serendipity Mining Inc · Struck by powered moving object

MESCHER TRACTOR AND BOLT MACHINE WAS PASSING ROADWAY WAS NARROW. PAN ON TRACTOR HIT MAN ON BORT MACHINE. BRUISING BACK AND SHOULER.

April 19, 1993 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Serendipity Mining Inc · Accident type, without injuries

#8 HEADING INTERSECTION - 4 BREAKS OUTBY FACE 42 BREAKD FROM OUTSIDE - FELL - WAS BOLTED WITH 42" BOLTS & CRIBED ON CORNERS - FELL INSIDE CRIBS THIS INTERSECTION WS NOT USED OR TRAVELED UNINTE NTIONAL FALL.

1992 · 1 incident

March 16, 1992 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Serendipity Mining Inc · Accident type, without injuries

ROOF FALL #8 HEADING-5 BREAKS OUTBY FACE USED 48" BOLTS AND CRIBBED WHILE MINING.FALL WAS APP 30X20X-IT WAS THEN TIMBERED AND DANGERED OFF.

1991 · 1 incident

January 25, 1991 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Serendipity Mining Inc · Struck against stationary object

BATTERY PUSHING IN SIDE RAISED UP TO MOVE BATTERY HIT THE TOP JERKED HEAD BACK