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Poplar Grove: 2 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Zielinski Brothers
Sacramento, Mclean County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517891

MSHA record for Poplar Grove (mine ID 1517891). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1998
Latest incident
Mar 1998
Ownership history
  1. Zielinski Construction Corp 1997 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Poplar Grove sits in McLean County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
McLean County, Kentucky · Population 9,127
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$70,549
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

1998 · 2 incidents

March 27, 1998 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Zielinski Construction Corp · Struck against a moving object

TRUCK STARTED TO TURN OVER, BACKHOE WENT TO LOW SIDE OF TRUCK--USED BUCKET TO HELP TRUCK MOVE FORWARD. WHEN TRUCK HAD MOVED FORWARD--OPERATOR IN TRUCK LIFTED BED PARTIALLY--BACKHOE WAS NOT CLE AR. BED STRUC CAB OF BACKGHOE--PUSHING BACKHOE CAB ONTO OPERATOR'S FEET.

March 27, 1998 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Zielinski Construction Corp · Struck by falling object

SEVERAL EES TRYING TO MOVE VOLVO TRUCK AWAY FROM BACKHOE--SEVERAL OTHERS STANDING AROUND. ROCKS FELL FROM BED OF TRUCK--ONE STRUCK EE'S LEG.