Mining Incidents

Briar Hollow: 1 reportable incident Coal

Gardner, Clay County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517998

Briar Hollow has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1998.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1998
Latest incident
Mar 1998
Ownership history
  1. Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
2003 0
1999 4
1998 34 255,723
1997 7 13,651
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Briar Hollow sits in Clay County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.9% 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.
Clay County, Kentucky · Population 20,105
0.9%
Mining share of county employment
$39,607
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; earlier incidents are counted but not rate-adjusted, though reported hours reach back to 1983. 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
2003 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1998 · 1 incident

March 13, 1998 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ikerd-Bandy Company Inc · Struck by falling object

EMPLOYEE DROPPED A "CATHEAD" WRENCH AND IT STRUCK HIS LEFT FOOT BEHING THE STEEL TOE BRUISING HIS FOOT.