Mining Incidents

Last Chance: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Embry Royce
Hartford, Ohio County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1516017

MSHA record for Last Chance (mine ID 1516017). 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
1988
Latest incident
Oct 1988
Ownership history
  1. Dunbar Coal Company Inc 1987 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Last Chance sits in Ohio County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 1.0% 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.
Ohio County, Kentucky · Population 23,704
1.0%
Mining share of county employment
$54,369
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

1988 · 1 incident

October 10, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Dunbar Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS MOUNTING BULLDOZER WHEN HE SLIPPED ON TRACK AND FELL INJURING BACK.EMPLOYEE DID NOT REPORT THIS INJURY UNTIL 10-14-88.