Mining Incidents

Day Branch Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Cawood, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519757

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2018–2019
Latest incident
Sep 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
62
citations
4
significant & substantial
$8,181
proposed penalties
$7,713
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
2019 Q3 13,131 2 0 152.3
2019 Q2 25,465 2 0 78.5
2019 Q1 30,431 1 0 32.9
2018 Q2 26,352 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 30,123 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 25,738 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 24,699 4 1 161.9
2016 Q1 21,948 1 0 45.6
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

2019 · 3 incidents

July 23, 2019 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc. · Struck by flying object

Employee was working on segments on D11 Dozer when EE was hitting with hammer a piece of metal flew off and hit EE on right shoulder embedding itself. Worked until EE had surgery on shoulder 7-30-19.

March 18, 2019 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee was climbing up ladder on 930 Loader to start it, when the ladder broke and ee fell skinning shin below left knee, ee just went to a doctor for this injury 3-25-19.

2018 · 1 incident

December 17, 2018 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was backing up D11 Dozer when EE back over a rock and jarred EE's left shoulder.