Mining Incidents

Timber Tree #9 Coal

Controlled by John H Parton
Cumberland, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519051

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2006–2012
Latest incident
Mar 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
319
citations
65
significant & substantial
$124,820
proposed penalties
$90,711
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
2012 Q2 8,439 16 2 1896.0
2012 Q1 8,109 57 13 7029.2
2011 Q3 7,110 11 1 1547.1
2011 Q2 7,982 28 6 3507.9
2011 Q1 5,727 11 2 1920.7
2010 Q3 560 1 0 1785.7
2010 Q2 650 2 2 3076.9
2009 Q4 5,010 13 0 2594.8
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
March 3, 2012 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Parton Bros. Contracting, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was installing a canopy on the shuttle car and the canopy fell on him striking him in the head and chest.

Reportable incidents

8 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2011 · 6 incidents

December 7, 2011 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator STRIKING OR BUMPING
Parton Bros. Contracting, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was walking to shuttle car and hit his shoulder on a roof bolt.

October 7, 2011 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Parton Bros. Contracting, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was preparing to bolt area and a piece of draw rock fell on his hard hat and neck and sliding down the left side of his back.

September 19, 2011 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Parton Bros. Contracting, Inc. · Struck by falling object

Employee was installing a roof mat and a piece of rock fell on his right thumb and cut it.

July 12, 2011 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Parton Bros. Contracting, Inc. · Struck against stationary object

Employee was moving a piece of draw rock and the sharp edge of the rock cut his arm.

2007 · 1 incident

2006 · 1 incident

July 25, 2006 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Unknown operator · Struck by falling object

Had strap holding roller. While putting it on dozer, strap broke and fell on left hand.