Mining Incidents

Hackney Creek Splashdam Coal

Banner Blue Coal Company · Underground
Controlled by Metinvest B V
Mouthcard, KY, Pike County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519784

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2017–2021
Latest incident
Oct 2021
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2016
366
citations
61
significant & substantial
$77,312
proposed penalties
$74,791
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
2023 Q2 821 8 1 9744.2
2023 Q1 7,987 28 6 3505.7
2022 Q4 685 10 0 14598.5
2022 Q3 6,759 13 4 1923.4
2022 Q1 2,096 7 0 3339.7
2021 Q3 9,256 8 0 864.3
2021 Q2 11,984 16 2 1335.1
2021 Q1 14,018 16 4 1141.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2021 · 2 incidents

October 8, 2021 KY · Coal superintendent HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
AB&J Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Changing conveyor pot on cont. miner, using slate bars to remove CLA disc from pot. Laid a slate bar on the ground after removal of disc. Disc slid off conveyor pan catching end of bar causing it to flip up and strike employee in cheek causing cut requiring 8 stitches.

March 1, 2021 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
AB&J Coal Company, Inc. · Struck by flying object

Miner was operating a shuttle car with a hand resting on the side rail of the cab when a rock was dislodged from the floor of the mine, striking the miner's middle and ring finger on left hand.

2020 · 1 incident

December 30, 2020 KY · Coal master mechanic, foreman, supervisor SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
AB&J Coal Company, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

While working on the C.O. Monitoring system the employee slipped forward. While off balance, reached for the C.O. cable pulling muscles in shoulders and back as well as thinking they may have torn rotator cups on both sides.

2019 · 1 incident

July 8, 2019 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
AB&J Coal Company, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee struck coal rib while operating a permissible scoop. Afterwards complained of pain in EE's neck. Employee worked until 7/12/19 then sought medical attention.

2017 · 1 incident

October 16, 2017 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cheyenne Enterprises, Inc. · Fall from machine

Employee stated, fell while greasing loader. EE went to hospital got checked. Dr done x-rays and said nothing wrong and released EE. However, EE would not return to work and will not answer phone calls.