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Toms Fork Mine Coal

TENNCO INC. · Underground

Controlled by Jack Stump; Michael Runyon

Calvin, Bell County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1519844

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Fatalities: 1
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2019
Latest incident: Mar 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2018

131

citations

significant & substantial

$21,696

proposed penalties

$21,696

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
2020 Q3	21,611	14	3	647.8
2020 Q2	19,602	19	1	969.3
2020 Q1	18,794	21	1	1117.4
2019 Q4	20,612	18	3	873.3
2019 Q2	18,112	14	3	773.0
2019 Q1	618	12	2	19417.5
2018 Q4	2,886	8	3	2772.0

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

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

January 14, 2019 KY · Coal transit man, surveyor/transit worker Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE

TENNCO INC. · Struck by powered moving object

While the surveyor was setting up the instrument in #4 belt entry, the other surveyor was getting height measurements down #3 entry. A shuttle car loaded with coal coming from #2 entry tramming to the feeder struck and killed the surveyor near spad 24.

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2019 · 1 incident

March 28, 2019 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY

TENNCO INC. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Glove caught in the spinning motion of the drill pot and twisted hand