Mining Incidents

Kelly Branch Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Evarts, Harlan County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1519897

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Feb 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
90
citations
8
significant & substantial
$32,285
proposed penalties
$9,127
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 22,874 1 0 43.7
2025 Q2 11,698 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 27,519 4 0 145.4
2023 Q2 26,706 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 28,602 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 26,053 2 0 76.8
2022 Q2 25,005 1 0 40.0
2021 Q3 22,533 5 0 221.9
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2025 · 1 incident

February 19, 2025 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was coming up hill in fuel truck, when truck spun out, slid back 50 feet, then truck went up on spoil and laid over on it's passenger side.

2024 · 3 incidents

October 5, 2024 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee stated that front right-side tire went down causing employee to go in the ditch and scrap the highwall on the haul back to the parking lot area.

July 2, 2024 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman MACHINERY
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating D11T Dozer cleaning highwall and pushing shot material when EE backed up on a rock and dozer slid off rock causing it to jar EE's back and left leg. Employee refused medical attention at time of accident said was ok and didn't seek medical attention until 07/08/2024.

February 15, 2024 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating D6 Dozer cutting a road in at the toe of the valley field when employee backed up the offside track went up a rock and slid off causing it to jar their neck and shoulder area.

2023 · 2 incidents

November 9, 2023 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating Caterpillar 777 Rock Truck and was headed back from the dump area through a narrow area in the roadway when another rock truck coming from the pit area also entered the narrow area. Employee hit the brake and caused the truck to slide toward the other truck and employee jerked the steering wheel in the other direction and went into an empty pond.

August 4, 2023 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee jumped from fuel tank on Mack RD800 Coal Truck to ground spraining right ankle.

2022 · 1 incident

August 1, 2022 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Struck against a moving object

Tandem Coal Truck driver was attempting to change to a higher gear on a slight decline. When driver changed gears, EE thought it had gone into gear but was actually in the neutral position. When the driver realized the truck was in the neutral position, the truck had gained speed causing the truck to runaway.

2021 · 1 incident

August 30, 2021 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was exiting Dozer when EE's left foot slipped on step and twisted left ankle.