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Allen Branch Surface Mine Coal

Clintwood JOD, LLC · Surface

Controlled by JOD Holdings LLC

Phelps, Pike County, KY · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1519722

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 4
Years on record: 2014–2015
Latest incident: Sep 2015

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2014

142

citations

significant & substantial

$63,019

proposed penalties

$53,311

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
2025 Q4	14,363	0	0	0.0
2025 Q2	13,210	5	0	378.5
2025 Q1	18,675	0	0	0.0
2024 Q4	14,439	1	0	69.3
2024 Q3	18,784	0	0	0.0
2024 Q2	3,896	5	1	1283.4
2024 Q1	14,747	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	11,643	1	0	85.9

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

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

May 28, 2015 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

Apex Energy, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The employee was connecting a chain around the bumper of a tractor to a road grader when the grader rolled back and pinned him between to bumper of the tractor and Grader.

Reportable incidents

3 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2015 · 1 incident

September 18, 2015 KY · Coal welder (non-shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Apex Energy, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on a Front end Loader and twisted right knee when EE dismounted the machine.

2014 · 2 incidents

October 6, 2014 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE

Apex Energy, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was being loaded in the pit area when a rock rolled out of the overburden being loaded and struck the left corner of the truck bed. This caused the employee to be thrown around in the seat. The seat belt pulled him causing pain in lower back and hips.

August 25, 2014 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Apex Energy, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking up berm to get on bulldozer and slipped bending his hand back causing pain.