Mining Incidents

MINE NO 5 Coal

FALCON COAL CORPORATION · Underground
Elkhorn City, Pike County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1518943

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2006–2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
779
citations
199
significant & substantial
$298,585
proposed penalties
$232,574
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 12,188 21 7 1723.0
2025 Q3 8,812 14 3 1588.7
2025 Q2 13,775 18 6 1306.7
2025 Q1 12,073 19 4 1573.8
2024 Q4 1,098 20 2 18214.9
2024 Q3 1,020 13 4 12745.1
2024 Q1 14,240 19 5 1334.3
2023 Q4 12,783 39 11 3050.9
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2024 · 2 incidents

October 22, 2024 KY · Coal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Falcon Coal Corporation · Fall onto or against objects

EE, WHO ORIGINALLY REPORTED EE WAS RAN OVER, IS AS OF 12/10/2024 ALLEDGING THAT EE WAS WALKING ACROSS THE SURFACE AREA OF THE MINE, AND THAT EE TRIPPED OVER THE FORKS OF THE FORKLIFT, HITTING EE'S HEAD.

2023 · 2 incidents

October 20, 2023 KY · Coal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Falcon Coal Corporation · Fall onto or against objects

EE was attempting to investigate a problem with a shuttle car. EE slipped and started to fall. Trying to stop EE's fall, EE reached out EE's hand-cutting two fingers.

August 9, 2023 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) POWERED HAULAGE
Falcon Coal Corporation · Struck by falling object

RIDING MANTRIP WHEN MANTRIP HIT THE RIB ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND COAL AND ROCK FELL ON EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS RIDING MANTRIP.

2021 · 1 incident

April 5, 2021 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Falcon Coal Corporation · Accident type, without injuries

A NON-INJURY ROOF FALL ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 7:30 AM ON 04/05/2021. THE ROOF FALL OCCURRED IN THE #3 PILLAR BLOCK OF THE 001 MMU SS #14957.

2014 · 1 incident

November 5, 2014 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator MACHINERY
Falcon Coal Corporation · Unclassified, insufficient data

While rock dusting, employee injured his hand cleaning rock duster hopper.

2012 · 1 incident

February 9, 2012 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator MACHINERY
Falcon Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

An accident on the date of 2/9/12 resulted in a continuous miner operator/helper being crushed between the miner's tail boom and the coal rib. This inflicted a fractured let femur to the victim.

2011 · 1 incident

July 18, 2011 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Falcon Coal Corporation · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE stated that he was taking lids off the scoop batteries when he hurt his back.

2006 · 1 incident

November 20, 2006 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Falcon Coal Corporation · Struck against stationary object

Employee was cleaning out rock duster when he cut his finger.