Mining Incidents

Ivel Plant Coal

Controlled by Eric Clark
Ivel, Floyd County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1513258

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
17
Years on record
2000–2019
Latest incident
Jun 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
290
citations
96
significant & substantial
$69,281
proposed penalties
$51,443
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
2025 Q4 620 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 650 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
2023 Q3 0 7 2
2019 Q4 1,600 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 15,998 10 2 625.1
2018 Q4 1,284 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 10,346 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

17 on file

2019 · 2 incidents

June 28, 2019 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
SNR RAILOPS LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EE got out of the rock truck and was walking to the control station to open the gate and fill EE's truck. EE stepped on a piece of tin laying in the walkway and slipped and caught self with right forearm causing pain to EE's right shoulder. EE asked to go to the hospital to be checked, said EE had a previous injury.

February 12, 2019 KY · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor OTHER
SNR RAILOPS LLC · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee had walked up and down stairs 3 times in about a 20 min span to the 3rd floor on the time EE started complaining with chest and left arm. Employee was removed from the plant and we called an ambulance to take EE to be checked.

2018 · 1 incident

June 2, 2018 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
SNR RAILOPS LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was helping change top deck screen on the raw coal screen in the plant on the top floor. EE stepped on the stainless and lost footing and fell flat on back on the side of screen and then to the deck.

2015 · 1 incident

September 9, 2015 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Employee was exiting dozer and stepped on the track and lost his footing. He fell on his butt and bruised his lower back and butt. Employee was using hand rail.

2014 · 3 incidents

July 14, 2014 KY · Coal electrician, lineman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Appalachian Mining & Reclamation, LLC · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

On 7/21/14 called in stating he was going to the Doctor because he had blister on the top of his feet, on 7/14/14 Employee had helped repair a caustic soda line and reported he had spilt the chemical on his boots, over the next few days he developed blisters on the top of his feet (Employee is a diabetic)

June 23, 2014 KY · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Appalachian Mining & Reclamation, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was using a chain hoist and a 3/8 chain to lift a side of a screen to change the springs on the right side the chain around a beam holding the hoist broke and the screen fell forcing a spring out hitting him in the right knee causing him to fall.

January 15, 2014 KY · Coal refuse truck driver, backfill truck driver, stock pile truck driver HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Appalachian Mining & Reclamation, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was using a pry bar to help remove a pitman arm from a steering box on a Mack truck. The bar slipped causing the employee to trip and fall twisting his right ankle. Employee was taken to E.R. X-rays showed his ankle was cracked in 2 places.

2013 · 1 incident

September 12, 2013 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Appalachian Mining & Reclamation, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was using hoist to lower a section of pump to the ground. He was using his hands to guide the section to the resting place when it turned & mashed the end of his left pinky finger between his section and another section of the pump

2011 · 1 incident

July 5, 2011 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Dorchester Coal Co. L. P. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee said he was back dragging a road and turned his head around to look back and said his back went out.

2007 · 5 incidents

July 3, 2007 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Struck by falling object

Loading refuse, feed was shut off. EE got out of the trk to clean windows, rock fell off trk and hit him on the lip.

June 4, 2007 KY · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Struck against stationary object

The EE was working the loadout sampler skirt boards. He had dropped one side and had loosened all the bolts on the other side, except for one. He had a socket and racket on the last bolt, when it broke. His right hand was propelled backwards and struck another bolt, puncturing his hand. He received 5 stitches.

May 21, 2007 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Struck by powered moving object

Contr EE of Twin Ridge Development, cntr#b294. Acc investigated by MSHA. Refuse trk driver was struck by csx train while crossing track. Driver was fatally injured. MSHA has not determined whether it has jurisdiction/reportable since the accident location is owned by the railroad.Statement given at MSHA office 5/22/07.

February 14, 2007 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was connecting pipe and suffered lacerations to his head after falling from being hit in head with pipe. Employee lost consciousness for a short period of time but was well enough to return to work the next day.

January 23, 2007 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee slipped in the mud and fell, bruising his tailbone. He worked entire shift & sought medical treatment 1-24-07 and has not returned.

2006 · 1 incident

October 16, 2006 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Black Diamond Mining Co LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee laid torch on its side on corner of washer vessel. Torch fell off washer and hit employee on the head cutting him near his eyebrow.

2005 · 1 incident

December 7, 2005 KY · Coal FIRE
Appalachian Fuels LLC · Accident type, without injuries

An unplanned stockpile fire occurred at this facility that was not extinguished within thirty minutes.

2000 · 1 incident

August 18, 2000 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lodestar Energy, Inc · Fall from machine

THE EMPLOYEE WAS DISMOUNTING FROM A BULLDOZER WHEN HIS FOOT SLIPPED AND HE WAS HOLDING ON THO THE GRAB RAIL. THE WEIGHT OF HIS BODY ON HIS ARM CAUSED HIS SHOULDER TO DISLOCATE.