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Bull Branch Mine Coal

TENNCO INC. · Underground

Controlled by Jack Stump; Michael Runyon

TEJAY, Bell County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1519848

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2019
Latest incident: Jan 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2019

193

citations

significant & substantial

$32,016

proposed penalties

$31,575

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 Q4	776	26	8	33505.2
2023 Q3	16,662	14	2	840.2
2023 Q2	14,288	10	1	699.9
2022 Q4	759	12	1	15810.3
2022 Q3	12,277	7	2	570.2
2022 Q2	9,025	17	2	1883.7
2020 Q2	520	18	4	34615.4
2020 Q1	14,957	18	1	1203.4

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

January 15, 2019 KY · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS

TENNCO INC. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was helping mechanic put left cylinder back on D6 Dozer when the cylinder hit against the grill on dozer smashing employee's thumb against grill. Went to Clinic, right thumb was broke in (2) places.