Mining Incidents

Provo: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Sargeant Barry
Dunbar, Butler County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517644

MSHA record for Provo (mine ID 1517644). 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
1995
Latest incident
Oct 1995
Ownership history
  1. Eel River Resources Inc 1995 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Provo sits in Butler County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.4% 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.
Butler County, Kentucky · Population 12,373
0.4%
Mining share of county employment
$52,003
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

1995 · 1 incident

October 24, 1995 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Eel River Resources Inc · Fall from machine

CHANGING (REMOVING) ALTERNATOR FROM BLAST HOLE DRILL- SLIPPED OFF DRILL TRACK AND HIT GROUND SPRAINING ANKLE WHILE DISMOUNTING DRILL.