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Island Creek Surface Mine #1 Coal

Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co. · Surface

Controlled by J Mark Campbell

Feds Creek, Pike County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1518831

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2007
Latest incident: Jul 2007

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2005

citations

significant & substantial

$5,913

proposed penalties

$5,520

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
2008 Q1	0	0	0
2007 Q3	0	0	0
2007 Q2	10,284	10	2	972.4
2006 Q3	14,019	5	1	356.7
2006 Q2	14,287	0	0	0.0
2006 Q1	13,330	10	6	750.2
2005 Q4	12,855	0	0	0.0
2005 Q3	11,664	12	5	1028.8

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

2007 · 2 incidents

July 17, 2007 KY · Coal FIRE

Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co. · Accident type, without injuries

Grader operator was grading road and his hydraulics stopped working, so he backed the grader up into a wide place in the roadway. He got out and noticed flames coming from the engine compartment near the cab. The fire was extinguished within 50 minutes of discovering the fire.

May 2, 2007 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer STEPPING OR KNEELING ON OBJECT

Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co. · Struck against stationary object

Foot slipped off track of excavator, causing his right knee to take direct impact of his body weight on a large rock. Only started missing work on May 14, 2007.