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SHM-47 Coal

Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Surface

Controlled by SDC LLC; Cox Enterprises LLC

Harlan, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 1519371

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2009–2017
Latest incident: Nov 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2009

citations

significant & substantial

$16,694

proposed penalties

$11,969

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
2022 Q1	1,885	4	0	2122.0
2021 Q2	0	0	0
2020 Q4	4,264	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	3,336	0	0	0.0
2020 Q1	2,322	5	0	2153.3
2019 Q1	2,225	3	2	1348.3
2018 Q3	7,710	5	0	648.5
2018 Q2	6,326	0	0	0.0

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2017 · 1 incident

November 8, 2017 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

MEGA HIGHWALL MINING LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MINER'S GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED IN DOOR LATCH AS MINER EXITED CAB, AND AS A RESULT, THE GLOVE WAS PULLED OFF MINER'S HAND, CATCHING THE TIP OF FINGER, CAUSING A FRACTURE OF THE TIP OF THE FINGER BONE.

2014 · 1 incident

November 10, 2014 KY · Coal forklift operator POWERED HAULAGE

PIA Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Standing beside Mack Truck, the employee failed to see outrigger on truck coming down. His right foot/toe was caught under outrigger

2009 · 1 incident

August 6, 2009 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY

Major Elkhorn Mining LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee was visually inspecting the SHM and came in contact with the reel assembly on the machine. Injury to head and laceration to right ear.