Mining Incidents

No 6 Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

T & H Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by Taylor Fields
Langley, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1512371

MSHA record for No 6 Mine (mine ID 1512371). 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
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
Ownership history
  1. T & H Coal Company Inc 1980 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 6 Mine sits in Floyd County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 4.4% 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.
Floyd County, Kentucky · Population 35,342
4.4%
Mining share of county employment
$41,582
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

March 15, 1983 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
T & H Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

HE WAS CHANGING A TRUCK TIRE ON THE COAL TRUCK WHICH HE DRIVES- WHILE LIFTING THE TIRE HE STRAINED HIS BACK.