Mining Incidents

King Mountain Mine Coal

Alden Resources LLC · Surface
Controlled by Ferroglobe PLC
Williamsburg, Whitley County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519854

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Feb 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
10
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,762
proposed penalties
$1,762
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
2021 Q1 6,283 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 8,527 2 0 234.5
2020 Q1 14,161 3 0 211.8
2019 Q2 10,755 2 0 186.0
2019 Q1 1,634 2 0 1224.0
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

February 28, 2019 KY · Coal FIRE
Alden Resources LLC · Accident type, without injuries

A 320C Excavator caught on fire while clearing bush and could not be put out with the use of fire extinguishers. No one was injured.