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Star No 1: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Azzan Mostafa
Morgantown, Butler County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1513114

Star No 1 has had no fatalities among 1 reportable incident since 1983.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1983
Latest incident
Mar 1983
Ownership history
  1. Star Coal Company Inc 1981 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
ⓘ Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
Year Employees Coal produced (tons)
1985 7 47,520
1984 21 173,942
1983 18 126,032
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Star No 1 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

1983 · 1 incident

March 29, 1983 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Star Coal Company Inc · Struck by falling object

MR. HATCHER A LOADER OPERATOR WAS ASSISTING MAINTENANCE WORK ON HIS LOADER WHEN HE CAUGHT HIS FOOT IN REPAIR PARTS CAUSING TO FALL ON H IS RIGHT FOOT.