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Swanee: 10 reportable incidents Coal

Controlled by Charles E Yates
Isom, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1511192

MSHA record for Swanee (mine ID 1511192). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
1987–1989
Latest incident
Sep 1989
Ownership history
  1. South-East Coal Company Inc 1978 to 1992
  2. Golden Oak Mining Company L P 1992 to 1993
  3. Dlx Inc 1993 to 1994
  4. Carhaul Inc 1994 to 1994
  5. Swanee Fuels Inc 1994 to 1996
  6. Kentucky Processing Company 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2000 0
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Swanee sits in Letcher County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 3.5% 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.
Letcher County, Kentucky · Population 21,146
3.5%
Mining share of county employment
$40,501
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
ⓘ Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

1989 · 2 incidents

September 15, 1989 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck against a moving object

OPER END LOADER INPILE OF COAL BUCKET STRUCK SOLID OBJECT, MOVED FORWARD, STRIKING L KNEE ON GEARSHIFT HOLDER.

1988 · 4 incidents

December 30, 1988 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

RED FOX EMPLOYEE WORKING ON SOUTH EAST SITE WAS CLEANING DUST SCREENS WHEN HIS LOWER BACK STARTED HURTING. THIS WAS A RECCURENCE FROM A PREVIOUS INJURY.

October 6, 1988 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPL WAS SHOVELING BELT LINE & GOT SHOVEL CAUGHT AND SHOVEL HIT HAND

March 31, 1988 KY · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

RECEIVED CLAIM FOR FEDERAL BLACK LUNG BENEFITS.

1987 · 4 incidents

April 24, 1987 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South-East Coal Company Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

WAS BOLTING LAS7 SECTION OF WASHER COAL STACKER BELT IN PLACE AND PULLING STRUCTURE IN LINE WHEN HE STRAINED THE MUSCLES IN HIS LOWER ABDOMEN.

April 13, 1987 KY · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
South-East Coal Company Inc · Struck by flying object

GOT A PC. OF ST9EL IN HIS LEFT EYE ON 4-13-87 AND THIS WAS NOT REPORTED TO SAFETY DEPARTMENT UNTIL 4-29-87. HE DID GO TO DR. CAUDILL TO HAVE THE FOREIGN BODY REMOVED.