Mining Incidents

Prep Plant # 1 Coal

JT Reclaim, LLC · Facility
Controlled by James H Booth
Debord, Johnson County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1517059

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2000–2015
Latest incident
Oct 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
257
citations
104
significant & substantial
$44,064
proposed penalties
$32,326
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 3,019 2 0 662.5
2025 Q2 3,410 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 3,808 6 4 1575.6
2024 Q3 4,612 6 3 1301.0
2024 Q2 3,660 3 1 819.7
2023 Q2 3,623 1 0 276.0
2023 Q1 2,834 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,385 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

7 on file

2015 · 1 incident

October 17, 2015 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Removing tire from grader and twisted his left knee when he turned around.

2014 · 2 incidents

August 23, 2014 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee was helping replace segment on an excavator when they set the excavator back down a piece of metal sheared off the segment and struck him in the right leg. He received 5 stitches.

June 20, 2014 KY · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was in the process of moving a brake rotor chamber with the shops overhead crane. When the safety chain slipped off rotor chamber and him above his right eye. He received 7 stitches. Came back to work same day.

2013 · 1 incident

May 3, 2013 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on a John Deere grader. Employee had to get off the grader to get another tool. When he did he twisted his right knee. Employee worked until 5-21-13 then went off work.

2011 · 1 incident

October 21, 2011 KY · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Struck by falling object

Employee was changing a spring on screen #1 using a chain. Fall when the beam clamp on the chain fall pulled away from the beam and the chain fall fell and hit the employee on the back. It fractured 1 vertebra.

2008 · 1 incident

June 27, 2008 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cutting a piece of beltline. With a utility knife. When the knife slipped cutting his right thumb he received 6 stitches "no lost time"

2000 · 1 incident

July 14, 2000 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Beech Fork Processing LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EMPLOYEE WAS SLIDING PIPE ACROSS FLOOR TO WHERE IT WAS TO BE INSTALLED AND CAUGHT HIS FINGERS BETWEEN PIPE AND MAGNETITE SCREW SHAFT LACERATING INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGER ON LEFT HAND. SUTURE S REQUIRED.