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No 1 Strip Mine: 1 recorded fatality Coal

Controlled by Dan Chambers
Woodbine, Whitley County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1514218

MSHA record for No 1 Strip Mine (mine ID 1514218). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1984
Latest incident
Nov 1984
Ownership history
  1. Hard Rock Coal Company Inc 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 1 Strip Mine sits in Whitley County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.0% 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.
Whitley County, Kentucky · Population 36,755
0.0%
Mining share of county employment
$41,719
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
November 5, 1984 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS
Hard Rock Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

I.NAME WAS LOADING COAL IN PIT WITH HIS LOADER WHEN AN ELECTRICAL STORM CAME UP SUDDENLY LIGHTENING SET SHOT OFF ABOVE WHERE I.NAME WAS WORKING COVERING HIM & HIS LOADER WITH SEVERAL FEET OF D IRT