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S-12 Calhoun Coal

Controlled by Jeffery A Hoops
Rousseau, Breathitt County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518600

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
19
Years on record
2003–2014
Latest incident
Aug 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
198
citations
99
significant & substantial
$238,640
proposed penalties
$190,843
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
2017 Q1 901 1 0 1109.9
2016 Q3 2,408 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 2,261 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 2 0
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 9,854 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
May 23, 2006 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING A WATER TRUCK WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF THE TRUCK AND OVERTURNED. THE ACCIDENT IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE VICTIM WAS TRAPPED UNDER THE TRUCK. THE VICTIM WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE BODY WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BREATHITT COUNTY CORONER & THEN TO FRANKFORT FOR AUTOPSY.

Reportable incidents

18 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2014 · 4 incidents

August 19, 2014 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
Revelation Energy, LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

while employee was welding, welding helmet was changing dark due to night fall, he changed to safety glasses to finish. A piece of hot slag hit glasses, dripped onto right eyelid, burning lid and eye

April 2, 2014 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator EXPLODING VESSELS UNDER PRESSURE
Revelation Energy, LLC · Struck by flying object

He was using air gun to tighten a bolt on miner, when air hose blew off and struck him above left eye

February 12, 2014 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Revelation Energy, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Pulling nose cone off D9T tractor, lift jack came out of ball on blade, struck right knee and pinned right leg against the back of the blade - resulting in a knee contusion.

January 22, 2014 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Revelation Energy, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Got off of loader to walk around front of loader bucket, tripped over bucket tooth falling flat and landing on wrist

2013 · 3 incidents

November 15, 2013 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Revelation Energy, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was assembling highwall miner-using sledgehammer & slate bar. Was prying with slate bar to align bolt holes on structure of 2nd deck, bar slipped & he fell on deck onto his behind.

August 24, 2013 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey POWERED HAULAGE
Revelation Energy, LLC · Struck against a moving object

Returning to office, heavy fog resulted in bad visibility, truck left the roadway & struck a rock.

2009 · 1 incident

April 20, 2009 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee was driving a 777D rock truck and went through a dip in road and said he hurt his back.

2008 · 1 incident

September 5, 2008 KY · Coal grader operator, roadgrader operator MACHINERY
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee was grading road and corner of grader blade caught a rock and caused the grader to shift causing employee to hurt his back.

2006 · 3 incidents

March 30, 2006 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Took break from loading holes to go and relieve himself. Started to go over the hill from bench where work was being done, slipped on rock & went down over hill landing on a rock then rolling on down to catch bench.

February 1, 2006 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver MACHINERY
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee backed dozer into rock truck. Employee was pushing fill for rock trucks. Employee said neck and shoulder was hurting.

January 5, 2006 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Fall from machine

EMPLOYEE WAS CLEANING OFF BACK WINDOW OF ROCK TRUCK. EE FELL 8-10' OFF OF ROCK TRUCK & HURT HIS BACK. EE COULD NOT FEEL, HIS LEGS WERE NUMB.

2005 · 3 incidents

November 8, 2005 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was packing lift cylinder on d-11 dozer. EE's finger was pinched between cylinder and blade.

October 30, 2005 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Miller Bros Coal LLC · Struck by falling object

Cut bearing from pin bore and was moving out of the way. The bearing had excessive amounts of grease causing it to slip out of mechanic's hand striking him in the left lower leg.

March 10, 2005 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Miller Brothers Coal Incorporated · Struck against a moving object

Employee was being loaded by 992G loader boom and it struck the side of the truck bed. EE was complaining of a sore neck.

2003 · 3 incidents

August 18, 2003 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Miller Brothers Coal Incorporated · Struck against a moving object

EMPLOYEE WAS PLACING ROCK CORE IN HOLLOW FIELD #6. HE BACKED TRACK LOADER INTO A STUMP. HE COMPLAINED OF LOWER BACK PAIN.