Mining Incidents

#3 Coal

Black Thunder Mining Inc · Underground
Controlled by George Chris Waugh
Price, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519347

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
May 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
229
citations
93
significant & substantial
$51,128
proposed penalties
$5,961
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
2010 Q1 320 86 35 268750.0
2009 Q4 3,200 34 19 10625.0
2009 Q3 1,507 64 27 42468.5
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

May 9, 2009 KY · Coal INUNDATION
Inner Mountain Mining, Inc · Accident type, without injuries

An event of May 9 of 6" - 12" of rain after 8 days of rain caused a failure of diversion lines that were designed according to SMRAC Act of 1977 allowing water to enter the mine.