Mining Incidents

Long Fork Surface Mine Coal

Clintwood JOD, LLC · Surface
Controlled by JOD Holdings LLC
Kimper, Pike County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1519802

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2017–2018
Latest incident
Aug 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
35
citations
10
significant & substantial
$12,521
proposed penalties
$7,131
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 3,120 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 110 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 1,215 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 1,481 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 1,836 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 1,530 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 20 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 660 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2018 · 2 incidents

August 28, 2018 KY · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Apex Energy, Inc. · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was servicing a front end loader and was walking away from loader tripped and fell to the ground catching themselves with right hand to break fall.

August 23, 2018 KY · Coal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator POWERED HAULAGE
Apex Energy, Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects

Employee was backing haul truck into pit area to be loaded when they felt pain in the left arm.

2017 · 1 incident

January 21, 2017 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Apex Energy, Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

backfilling holes w/hoe & felt pain in low back