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River Ridge P-1 Coal

4TH GEN FUELS, LLC. · Surface

Controlled by Thomas J Loving; Joseph T Bennett Jr; Andrew T Loving

Cumberland, Letcher County, KY · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 1519895

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 3
Years on record: 2022–2025
Latest incident: Feb 2025

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2021

111

citations

significant & substantial

$22,308

proposed penalties

$18,819

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	20,176	0	0	0.0
2025 Q3	20,571	2	0	97.2
2025 Q2	21,537	12	0	557.2
2024 Q3	20,933	22	4	1051.0
2024 Q1	19,490	12	0	615.7
2023 Q4	19,720	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	18,754	8	1	426.6
2023 Q2	18,395	0	0	0.0

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2025 · 1 incident

February 13, 2025 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

4TH GEN FUELS, LLC. · Struck against a moving object

OPERATOR WAS RUNNING A 930 LOADER AND WORKING ON THE HAUL ROAD A ROCK ROLLED OFF THE BERM AND THE OPERATOR RAN OVER THE ROCK CAUSING EE TO BE BOUNCED UP IN THE AIR AND CAUSING PAIN IN EE'S LOWER BACK AND RADIATING DOWN EE'S LEFT LEG

2023 · 1 incident

January 26, 2023 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

4TH GEN FUELS, LLC. · Fall from machine

Bottom step broke letting injured worker fall to the ground

2022 · 1 incident

February 10, 2022 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY

4TH GEN FUELS, LLC. · Struck by falling object

Injured worker was removing a belly pan from a CAT 992D loader. The Pan fell approximately 3 feet and caught EE's right hand between the pan and an impact wrench.