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S-29 Cave Branch Coal

Blackjewel L.L.C. · Surface

Controlled by Jeffery A Hoops

Cumberland, Harlan County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1519798

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2016–2017
Latest incident: Dec 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2016

citations

significant & substantial

$3,677

proposed penalties

$228

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
2018 Q3	0	0	0
2018 Q1	17,595	0	0	0.0
2017 Q3	17,765	3	0	168.9
2017 Q2	23,084	0	0	0.0
2017 Q1	23,080	2	1	86.7

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2017 · 1 incident

December 8, 2017 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Blackjewel L.L.C. · Struck against a moving object

EE was digging in a shot, hit a rock causing loader to jerk unexpectedly & twisted EE's lower back.

2016 · 1 incident

September 29, 2016 KY · Coal forklift operator POWERED HAULAGE

Blackjewel L.L.C. · Struck by falling object

While working on a track on H9 HWM the fork loader set fork down on top of the track. There was a slate bar laying on the track, when the fork hit the slate bar. It came up and struck employee in the mouth/bottom lip area.