Mining Incidents

Colmar Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Calvin, Bell County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1519884

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Nov 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
76
citations
13
significant & substantial
$43,239
proposed penalties
$33,672
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 13,083 13 2 993.7
2025 Q2 9,286 7 1 753.8
2025 Q1 9,552 10 1 1046.9
2024 Q4 12,437 5 0 402.0
2024 Q3 4,993 5 2 1001.4
2023 Q3 21,488 4 0 186.2
2023 Q2 22,687 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 22,391 9 2 401.9
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded

Reportable incidents

8 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2025 · 2 incidents

November 19, 2025 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee picked up a bucket of grease to grease the threads on the drill steel on the highwall drill when EE felt a pop in EE's lower back.

2024 · 1 incident

November 4, 2024 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Employee was pulling on a 6-inch discharge hose when they felt a pop in their left shoulder.

2023 · 1 incident

March 16, 2023 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object

Employee was driving down haul road in personal vehicle when employee met an employee from the day shift crew leaving work early coming up the haul road. Employee coming down the haul road was in the center of the road striking the day shift's employee vehicle in the driver's side front.

2022 · 3 incidents

December 27, 2022 KY · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was getting out of the bed of EE's work truck when EE went to step to the ground from the rear bumper location, employee foot slipped due to the ground being froze and slick causing EE to fall and hitting EE's left knee on the ground.

July 26, 2022 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE was operating 980M Caterpillar Frontend Loader cleaning up loose material in the pit area, when bucket became lodged in solid material. When EE went to back up the bucket became dislodged from the solid material and slammed EE down, causing the seat to bottom out on the seat frame.

2021 · 1 incident

December 16, 2021 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Fall from machine

Employee was climbing off grader when the wind blew the grader door hit employee in back knocking employee off grader onto ground, landed flat on back, knocking the breath out of employee.