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No 2 Mine: 1 recorded fatality Coal

A & R Coal Corp · Underground
Rockhouse, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1512384

No 2 Mine has had 1 fatality among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Sep 1983
Ownership history
  1. R & S Coal Company 1980 to 1983
  2. A & R Coal Corp 1983 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
1984 14 34,428
1983 10 61,341
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

No 2 Mine sits in Pike County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 5.1% 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.
Pike County, Kentucky · Population 57,466
5.1%
Mining share of county employment
$42,179
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
September 7, 1983 KY · Coal electrician, lineman Fatality · ELECTRICAL
A & R Coal Corp · Contact with electrical current

TROUBLESHOOTING-REPAIR WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED ON SURFACE ELCTRICAL SUBSTATION (POWER WAS DE-ENERGIZED TO LOW VOLTAGE CONTROL CIRCUIT ON WHICH ACTUAL WORK WAS BEING PERFORMED). EMPLOYEE WAS U NDER NO DIRECT WORK ASSIGNMENT AT THE TIME, BUT FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON (SPECULATED HE WAS RETRIEVING A DROPPED POCKET KNIFE) HE STEPPED INSIDE THE SUBSTATION AND CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN ENERGI