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No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Hot Rocks Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Smith Claude
Bear Branch, Leslie County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1513426

No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
May 1983
Ownership history
  1. Hot Rock Coal Inc 1982 to 1982
  2. Wooton Creek Mining Company Inc 1982 to 1984
  3. Wooten Creek Mining Company Inc 1984 to 1984
  4. Hot Rocks Coal Company Inc 1984 to present
  5. Hot Rocks Coal Company Inc 1988 to 1989
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1986 0
1984 0
1983 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

No 1 sits in Leslie County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 10.6% 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.
Leslie County, Kentucky · Population 10,261
10.6%
Mining share of county employment
$40,176
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

1983 · 1 incident

May 2, 1983 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Wooton Creek Mining Company Inc · Struck by falling object

OPERATORA WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRILL A HOLE IN THE ROOF TO INSTALL A ROOF BOLT 183 THE DRILL BIT JERKED A SCALE OF ROCK LOOSE WEIGHING 7-10 LBS DOWN CATCHING THE OPERATORS FINGER ON THE HEAD OF THE BOLT MACHINED. FINGER WAS AMPUTATED.