Mining Incidents

HWM #73Coal

Partridge, Harlan County, KY · Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4609414
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2013–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE attempted to lift DEF fluid and experienced severe lower back pain. EE requested to be taken to Hospital. MSHA Inspector interviewed EE and recommend this to be a reportable accident. EE also spoke to Superintendent and Foreman.

2018 · 2 incidents

Accident type, without injuries

73 Highwall Miner inadvertently cut into an abandoned underground mine causing the HWM #73 Miner pit to become floooded

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a cutterhead module of a Highwall Miner when the wrench slipped and employee fell to the ground breaking right leg.

2016 · 1 incident

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint.

2013 · 2 incidents

Struck by flying object

Holding roller chain with hammer while another employee was attempting to knock out a connecting link with a hammer and a sliver of metal struck employee under his safety glasses

Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While knocking pins out of the Right Angle Conveyor of the Pasco Highwall Miner with a slate bar the the pins came out causing the slate bar to strike the employee in the hand and face.