Mining Incidents

Diablo #4 Coal

Royalton, Breathitt County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519925

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Oct 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
26
citations
12
significant & substantial
$5,786
proposed penalties
$5,314
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 0 0 0
2025 Q2 2,203 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 18,757 5 2 266.6
2024 Q2 20,781 4 2 192.5
2024 Q1 20,274 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 17,241 4 2 232.0
2023 Q3 16,075 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 18,163 5 2 275.3
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

2024 · 1 incident

October 24, 2024 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Liberty Management, LLC. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was running a drill when EE began feeling weak. EE feel into the controls of the drill while standing. EE drove self to the local Hazard ARH Hospital and was then transferred to UK in Lexington, KY.