Mining Incidents

No 7: 1 reportable incident Coal

Big Ridge Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Coleman Lon & Clifford
Piso, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1513491

MSHA record for No 7 (mine ID 1513491). 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
Oct 1983
Ownership history
  1. Big Ridge Coal Company 1982 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

No 7 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.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1983 · 1 incident

October 18, 1983 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Big Ridge Coal Company · Struck against stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS CARRYING A BAG OF POWDER AND BUMPED OR HIT HIS KNEE ON A TIMBER WHILE PASSING BY A COAL CAR THE COAL CAR WAS NOT MOVING AT TIME OF INJURY