Mining Incidents

Coal Valley East Mine Coal

Townley, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103462

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2015–2018
Latest incident
Jul 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
13
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,764
proposed penalties
$1,764
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
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 1,982 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 4,539 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 15,756 1 0 63.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

July 18, 2018 AL · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management OTHER

Employee was unclogging drain pipe at sediment pond 41E, while removing the pond floating boom from inlet of pipe, employee must have became engulfed in the draining water pulling ee into the drain pipe.

2015 · 1 incident

August 15, 2015 AL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Teammate was assembling a 18.00R33 tire on front wheel of 769 cat rock truck. Teammate was using the boom and a hammer to install the bead seat band on the wheel and was swinging the hammer, when the handle broke off of the head of the hammer and struck the teammates finger creating a fracture to left index finger. He continued to work and finished the job.