Kentucky-West Virginia Strip: 1 recorded fatality
Coal
Brookside,
Harlan County,
KY
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517648
Kentucky-West Virginia Strip has $55 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 1
- Total incidents
- 2
- Years on record
- 1998
- Latest incident
- Aug 1998
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
0
significant & substantial
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 74 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Kentucky-West Virginia Strip has $55 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-06-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
0.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 100.0% low, 0.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year |
Employees |
| 2003 |
0 |
| 2001 |
0 |
| 2000 |
0 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Kentucky-West Virginia Strip sits in Harlan County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 4.3% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Harlan County, Kentucky · Population 26,185
4.3%
Mining share of county employment
$37,198
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2003 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
August 19, 1998
KY · Coal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Cloverfork Mining & Excavating Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
VICTIM HAD LEFT THE SURFACE MINE AREA WITH A LOAD OF COAL. HIS TRUCK WAS LATER DISCOVERED OVERTURNED ON THE HAUL ROAD WITH VICTIM UNDERNEATH. ITAPPEARED THAT VICTIM HAD LOST CONTROL OF THE VEH ICLE AND HAD JUMPED BECAUSE THE VEHICLE APPEAREDTO BE HEADED OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
Reportable incidents
1 on file (excluding fatalities above)
1998 · 1 incident
April 16, 1998
KY · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Cloverfork Mining & Excavating Inc · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances
INJURED WAS CHECKING COOLANT LEVEL IN THE EXCAVATOR WHEN HE REMOVED THE RADIATOR CAP TOO QUICKLY AND OUTIFREEZE SPLASHED IN HIS EYES. THE ENGINE WAS NOT HOT.