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Turkey Creek Mine #501: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Talmage D Meade
Skyline, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1516297

MSHA record for Turkey Creek Mine #501 (mine ID 1516297). 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
1988
Latest incident
Jun 1988
Ownership history
  1. Meade & Shepherd Coal Company Inc 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Turkey Creek Mine #501 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.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1988 · 1 incident

June 3, 1988 KY · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Meade & Shepherd Coal Company Inc · Fall from machine

IT HAD BEEN RAINING AND HE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF STEPPING UPON THE GRADER AND WAS USING THE BLADE AS A STEP AND HIS RIGHT FOOT SLIPPED.HE WORKED THE REST OF THE DAY BUT HAD TO GO TO THE DOCTOR AFTER WORK.