Mining Incidents

Lige Hollow Coal

KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Underground
Pippa Passes, Knott County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519497

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2011–2012
Latest incident
May 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
241
citations
53
significant & substantial
$50,635
proposed penalties
$47,033
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
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 5,113 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 713 3 0 4207.6
2012 Q2 37,174 38 6 1022.2
2012 Q1 2,659 33 5 12410.7
2011 Q3 2,897 20 4 6903.7
2011 Q1 37,670 41 13 1088.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

May 21, 2012 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Struck against stationary object

Employee was putting up a roof bolt that he had bent, as he reached up to straighten the bolt back out the plate on the bolt cut his left forearm.

May 8, 2012 KY · Coal electrician, lineman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was making a cable splice on a Shuttle Car when knife slipped and cut top of middle finger on left hand.

2011 · 2 incidents

October 26, 2011 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Principal was bolting when letting canopy down it struck him knocking him down he complained with back hurting. He continued to work and started missing work on 11-23-2011.

August 12, 2011 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
KNOTT COUNTY COAL LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

He and another repairman was lifting a metal cover on the continuous miner, when he slipped and the metal cover pinned his arm against the continuous miner frame. This resulted in a fracture of the small bone in his right foreman.