Mining Incidents

No 1 Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Raven Mining · Underground
Controlled by Adams John Edwards
Barbourville, Knox County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1515126

MSHA record for No 1 Mine (mine ID 1515126). 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
1985
Latest incident
Jul 1985
Ownership history
  1. Raven Mining 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 1 Mine sits in Knox County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 2.8% 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.
Knox County, Kentucky · Population 30,034
2.8%
Mining share of county employment
$33,153
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

1985 · 1 incident

July 16, 1985 KY · Coal superintendent FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Raven Mining · Struck by falling object

WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF REMOVING BAD ROOF WHEN THE ROF COLLAPSED PINNING MAN N UNDER ROCK HE WAS LAYING ON HIS RIGHT SIDE RESULTING WITH HIS PELVIS BEING BROKEN AND OTHER INJURIES 2 OTHER MEN WERE BRUISED AND SCRATCHED BY ROCK WHEN IT FELL