C & H Mining · (Not Elsewhere Classified)
FOUND IN HIS VAN, AT MINE SITE, LAYING ON BED WITH BLANKET ON HIM, AS IF HE HAD DIED IN HIS SLEEP.
No 7 Mine: 4 reportable incidents Coal
C & H Mining
· Underground
Controlled by
Lloyd Cole; Larry Hubbard
Artemus,
Knox County,
KY
·
Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1516417
MSHA record for No 7 Mine (mine ID 1516417). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 1988–1995
- Latest incident
- Jul 1995
Ownership history
- M D B Contracting Inc 1988 to 1994
- C & H Mining 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
No 7 Mine sits in Knox County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 2.8% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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
4 on file1995 · 1 incident
1991 · 2 incidents
M D B Contracting Inc · Accident type, without injuries
RF FALL IN 4 HEADING FELL FROM HEADING BACK TO INTERSECTION IT WAS 20FT W AND 30 IN THICK COULD NOT TELL HOW LONG IT WAS
January 4, 1991
KY · Coal
maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
M D B Contracting Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
MAN WORKING ON JEEP WITH PAN OFF CAUGHT LEG IN BETWEEN DROPPED PAN & SCOOP.
1988 · 1 incident
October 25, 1988
KY · Coal
front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator
SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
M D B Contracting Inc · Fall from machine
SLIP DUE TO WET SHOES. FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING SLIGHT JAR, NOTICED PAIN IN RIGHT SIDE, WORKED FIVE TO TEN MINUTES, THEN HAD TROUBLE BREATHING AND WAS TRANSPROTED TO HOSPITAL. INJURED THOUGHT HE WAS HVING GAS PAINS AT FIRST WAS THE REASON HE DIDN'T GET TREATMENT IMMEDIATELY. INJURED SAID HE HADN'T FALLEN OR HAD ANY SUDDEN BLOWS DURING THE DAY OTHER THAN THE FOOT SLIPPING FROM BOTTOM