Mining Incidents

Silver Bullet: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Embry Royce
Dunbar, Butler County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1510474

MSHA record for Silver Bullet (mine ID 1510474). 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
1985
Latest incident
Nov 1985
Ownership history
  1. W W Coal Company 1977 to 1985
  2. Dunbar Coal Company Inc 1985 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Silver Bullet 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

1985 · 1 incident

November 7, 1985 KY · Coal drill operator MACHINERY
Dunbar Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

DRILL MAN WAS OPERATING DRILL DRILLING THROUGH HARD ROCK ENCOUNTER HEAVY DRILL BVIBRATION WHICH LOOSENED MAIN AIR LINE GOING INTO DRILL BIT THE HOSE LEAD (METAL) HIT OPERATOR ON THE HEAD RESU 20 STITCHES ON RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD