Mining Incidents

Auger Mine #22: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by G B Hendrickson
Isom, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518052

MSHA record for Auger Mine #22 (mine ID 1518052). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1999
Latest incident
Mar 1999
Ownership history
  1. B & H Coal Company Inc 1998 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2000 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Auger Mine #22 sits in Letcher County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 3.5% 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.
Letcher County, Kentucky · Population 21,146
3.5%
Mining share of county employment
$40,501
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1999 · 1 incident

March 1, 1999 KY · Coal auger operator, auger crew supervisor HANDLING OF MATERIALS
B & H Coal Company Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

AUGER CAB DOOR CLOSED ON LEFT. CUT OFF PART OF FINGER AT JOINT CLOSES TO FINGERNAIL (MIDDLE FINGER LEFT HAND).