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Peter Fork #2: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Robert C Billips
Harold, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1509626

MSHA record for Peter Fork #2 (mine ID 1509626). 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
1984
Latest incident
Nov 1984
Ownership history
  1. Peter Fork Mining Company 1976 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Peter Fork #2 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

1984 · 1 incident

November 14, 1984 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Peter Fork Mining Company · Struck by powered moving object

I.NAME HAD JUST DUMPED LOAD OF COAL INTO CRUSHER. FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON HE GOT OUT OF TRUCK WALKED TO OTHER SIDE OF TRUCK. HE EVIDENTLY DID NOT SET BRAKE BECAUSE TRUCK STARTED ROLLING. HE R AN AROUND TRUCK & TRIED TO GET BACK INTO TRUCK. TRUCK KNOCKED HIM DOWN.