Mining Incidents

Pine Mountain Prep Plant Coal

Controlled by James C Justice II
Bledsoe, Leslie County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1515682

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2009–2010
Latest incident
Sep 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
240
citations
43
significant & substantial
$178,967
proposed penalties
$159,612
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 Q4 1,920 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 1,560 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 1,536 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 96 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 96 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 96 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q2 120 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

2 on file

2010 · 1 incident

September 7, 2010 KY · Coal welder (shop) MACHINERY
Infinity Energy Incorporated · Struck by falling object

While preparing to take down a material stacking conveyor on impoundment, located on K7 2009 belonging to Infinity Coal Co, EE was standing on tail end of stacker cutting holes in sideboards for chain hook points. A backhoe operator was removing material from around support legs and turned conveyor over, causing cuts on 3 fingers on right hand of inured EE, requiring stitches.

2009 · 1 incident

February 27, 2009 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Infinity Energy Incorporated · Fall from machine

EE was loading his tools in the bed of a pick up truck. As he was exiting the bed, he slipped and fell of the truck, landing on a fork of a fork lift that was sitting beside the truck.