Mining Incidents

Vanover Mine: 1 reportable incident Coal

Controlled by Zielinski Brothers
Utica, Daviess County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517869

MSHA record for Vanover Mine (mine ID 1517869). 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
1999
Latest incident
Aug 1999
Ownership history
  1. Zielinski Construction Corp 1996 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Vanover Mine sits in Daviess County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.3% 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.
Daviess County, Kentucky · Population 103,195
0.3%
Mining share of county employment
$65,323
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

1999 · 1 incident

August 9, 1999 KY · Coal belt foreman, maintenance foreman, maintenance supervisor HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Zielinski Construction Corp · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MAINT FOREMAN WAS USING WRENCH TO LOOSEN FITTING FROM HYD LINE. NO SPECIFICS. WRENCH SLIPPING CAUSING MAINT FOREMAN TO HIT HIS FIST (KNUCKEL)