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Mine No 4: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by B W McDonald
Davella, Martin County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517304

MSHA record for Mine No 4 (mine ID 1517304). 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
1993
Latest incident
Jun 1993
Ownership history
  1. Mountaintop Restoration Inc 1992 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mine No 4 sits in Martin County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 8.0% 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.
Martin County, Kentucky · Population 11,181
8.0%
Mining share of county employment
$46,185
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

1993 · 1 incident

June 25, 1993 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Mountaintop Restoration Inc · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A CAT 988B LOADER IN STRIP PIT. WHILE EMPLOYEE WAS LOADING HIS BUCKET WITH SHOT MATERIAL, EMPLOYEE STRUCK HIS LEFT KNEE AGAINST DASH.