Mining Incidents

Mine #3 Coal

Tackett Mining, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Jerry Tackett
Ransom, Pike County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1518973

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2006–2019
Latest incident
Dec 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
666
citations
171
significant & substantial
$172,191
proposed penalties
$4,608
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
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 11 0
2022 Q2 1,045 61 13 58373.2
2022 Q1 920 3 0 3260.9
2021 Q4 0 2 0
2019 Q4 10 66 7 6600000.0
2019 Q3 5,177 54 10 10430.8
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

2019 · 4 incidents

December 6, 2019 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee had pulled roof bolter up in #9 entry on 001-1 section to prepare to start bolting place and was bending bolts to be installed first when hand slipped off roof bolt hitting hand on ground and roof bolter.

December 5, 2019 KY · Coal driller operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck by flying object

Had a bit break off in end of coal drill auger, myself and IE were beating old bit with hammer. Piece of bit broke off hitting IE in the eye, we both were wearing safety glasses but the piece that hit EE busted EE's glasses.

October 11, 2019 KY · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator POWERED HAULAGE
Lester And Sons Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE stated EE had a leak on one of the bucket jacks, raised head up over top of scoop while scoop still moving to see if EE could see the leak and caught head between scoop and mine roof.

October 1, 2019 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck by falling object

EE was loading coal out of face of #3 heading. When small piece of rock fell hitting EE on knee, EE never told. Worked rest of shift, then went to E.R. that night. Said bruised knee cap, nothing broke.

2018 · 1 incident

January 23, 2018 KY · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator POWERED HAULAGE
Little Tackett Mining, L.L.C. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Victim was injured when a scoop rolled forward resulting in victims left leg receiving trauma and fractured fibula, prior to being pulled from under the scoop.

2006 · 2 incidents

November 22, 2006 KY · Coal INUNDATION
Right Fork Energy Inc · Accident type, without injuries

Cutting machine was cutting #1 entry when water started coming in. We evacuated the men & made provisions to pump water. After the water had cleared, it was determined we had cut into a cone hole drilled from above.

October 26, 2006 KY · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Right Fork Energy Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Scoop operator was dumping coal onto section tailpiece. He accidentally knocked the guard off of the tailpiece roller & caused the section belt to gob off. He helped the tailpiece man clean it up. According to the tailpiece man, after cleaning, the belt was turned on before the guard was put back on. Emp. tripped & put hand in roller.