Mining Incidents

Pratt No. 1 Mine Coal

Graysville, Jefferson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103101

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2020
Latest incident
Jan 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
101
citations
34
significant & substantial
$12,207
proposed penalties
$9,623
paid to date
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q1 0 1 1
2022 Q4 6,453 1 0 155.0
2022 Q3 5,331 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 5,471 5 0 913.9
2020 Q4 8,008 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,480 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 9,441 7 2 741.4
2019 Q4 6,975 7 7 1003.6
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2020 · 1 incident

January 21, 2020 AL · Coal FIRE
Cane Creek, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

A fire was discovered at the North Pratt Bathhouse area in a location of old offices that were locked off to the miners.

2016 · 1 incident

June 28, 2016 AL · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cane Creek, LLC · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Miner was on the catwalk at the spirals, which is on the second floor of the plant. EE was checking each spiral, when EE made it to the last one, EE stepped off the end of the catwalk and caught self with hand, cutting the skin between EE's thumb and finger. The height of the fall was approximately 18-24 inches.

2015 · 1 incident

January 10, 2015 AL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
North Pratt Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Hanging a chute to a rotary breaker and finger got mashed between chute and breaker.

2003 · 1 incident

September 8, 2003 AL · Coal electrician, lineman POWERED HAULAGE
A2M, LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

EMPLOYEE STEPPED UNDER THE FORKS OF THE FORKLIFT AS THEY WERE BEING LOWERED TO REATTACH THE ROPE USED TO PULL WIRE.

2000 · 1 incident

May 15, 2000 AL · Coal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bankhead-Gardner Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY FELL OFF HYDROSEEDER WHILE FILLING TANK WITH WATER; HE WAS GIVEN FIRST AID BY CO-WORKERS AND THEN TRANSPORTED TO CARRAWAY MEDICAL CENTER. HE HAD A HEAD INJURY & CRACKED VERTEBRAE.