Lexington Coal Company, LLCMining Incidents in 2022

High voltage line broke, dropped to ground and caught grass and hills on fire.

At approximately 1:30am, the security guard was making rounds at the plant smelled a sulfur smell at the road above the clean coal silos. EE contacted the foreman who came and found a black steam coming out of the top vents of the #4 silo. After a plan approval the coal was removed from the silo through a stacking tube, spread out and water was applied to cool the heated coal.

Employee was operating grader when hydraulic hose burst spraying fluid on turbo causing fire. Employee jumped out of grader to ground injuring

Employee was driving bus to the pit when bus ran up on a hump causing fuel pedal to stick. Bus sped up stopping against rock.

Employee was passenger of man bus when it ran up on mound of dirt and throttle stuck and hit rock.

Employee was backing a 773 truck down with a load of material to beef up berm and truck did not stop at berm but pushed through berm and descended down slope and landed on its side at lower road.

Employee walked around mechanic truck to get bolts and stepped on unlevel ground causing them to twist an ankle.

Employee was not aware that EE's hand was on door frame behind curtain when another employee shut door on fingers.

Moving batteries from the deck of the drill to the truck, hurt low back

Working on HWM when slate bar slipped knocking tooth out.

Employee was guard of Arms security Services and was contacted by radio at 6:00pm. At 8:00 pm an attempt was made to contact EE by radio EE did not respond. The night shift traveled to the guard shack to check on EE and found EE deceased in the guard shack