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Little Spring Creek Mine Coal

Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC · Surface

Controlled by David Michael Jamison; Petri E Koivula

Jasper, Walker County, AL · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 0103444

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2018–2019
Latest incident: Jul 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2015

citations

significant & substantial

$130,778

proposed penalties

$33,132

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	0	0
2020 Q4	0	0	0
2020 Q2	0	0	0
2020 Q1	1,511	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	601	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	25,121	1	0	39.8
2019 Q2	24,294	3	3	123.5
2019 Q1	29,403	0	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

December 11, 2018 AL · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator Fatality · FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL

Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Victim was operating front-end loader in coal pit area, when a highwall failure occurred, covering the front-end loader completely.

Reportable incidents

2 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2019 · 2 incidents

July 13, 2019 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Struck by falling object

employee was removing a belly pan on a dozer when the chain slipped and fell onto employee's hand and knee

February 9, 2019 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee was dismounting a dozer the employee had been working on, and while dismounting the employee had stepped onto the pusharm step and slipped off between the track and pusharm. It had some oil residue on it, but the non-skid surface and grab irons were in place.