Mining Incidents

SHM-70 Coal

Controlled by Daniel W Bunn
letcher, Letcher County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1519852

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
23
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,914
proposed penalties
$4,482
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 6,106 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,947 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,117 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 6,840 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 8,112 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 7,555 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 7,152 2 0 279.6
2022 Q4 8,669 2 0 230.7
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

June 5, 2025 KY · Coal groundman, yardman POWERED HAULAGE
Mega Highwall Mining LLC. · Fall from machine

The injured person was traveling down the haul road belonging to River Ridge P-1, 15-19895, to go home when the brakes failed and they jumped out of the vehicle causing injury to their right shoulder and laceration to their head.

2024 · 1 incident

2022 · 3 incidents

November 30, 2022 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Mega Highwall Mining LLC. · Struck by flying object

Highwall miner was turning, something in the back right track popped and a piece of shrap flew approx 40ft striking EE in the right jaw below the mouth. there was an approx 3cm laceration with a small piece of shrap metal embedded that had to be removed at Pikeville PMC.

November 11, 2022 KY · Coal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mega Highwall Mining LLC. · Fall from machine

While doing repair work on miner push beams, Miner was welding the nuts holding pedestal on the push beam. When work was complete the miner slipped while stepping off, falling aprox 36" to the pit floor. while falling they reached out to catch themselves and landed on their wrist, breaking it in the process. Miner was wearing PPE which helped during the fall.

June 8, 2022 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Mega Highwall Mining LLC. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was using a hand held drill with an auger bit to remove debris from a connector pin hole on a highwall mining beam. The drill bit caught causing the drill to spin around and hit EE's right hand.

2021 · 1 incident

December 20, 2021 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Mega Highwall Mining LLC. · Struck by falling object

Replacing the bottom edge plate on a push beam. After cutting the plate loose it slipped and pinned EE's left hand little finger between the plate and the frame of the push beam causing the laceration to the finger.