Mining Incidents

Gum Branch Mine #1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Donn A Chickering
Robinson Creek, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517914

MSHA record for Gum Branch Mine #1 (mine ID 1517914). 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
1998
Latest incident
Jan 1998
Ownership history
  1. Branham & Baker Coal Company Inc 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Gum Branch Mine #1 sits in Pike County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 5.1% 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.
Pike County, Kentucky · Population 57,466
5.1%
Mining share of county employment
$42,179
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1998 · 1 incident

January 26, 1998 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Branham & Baker Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE WAS RUNNING DOZER, WHE HE RAN OVER ROCK AND THREW HIS LEFT ELBOW INTO ASHGTRAY. DID NOT THINK HE WAS HURT UNTIL FLUID FORMED ON ELBOW WEEKS LATER.