Mining Incidents

Smith #2 Coal

101 Coal Inc. · Underground
Coalgood, Harlan County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519945

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2024–2025
Latest incident
Dec 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
128
citations
25
significant & substantial
$29,167
proposed penalties
$8,439
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 21,767 22 7 1010.7
2025 Q3 3,055 10 1 3273.3
2025 Q2 5,272 19 3 3603.9
2025 Q1 8,672 22 4 2536.9
2024 Q4 1,733 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 597 13 4 21775.5
2024 Q2 15,734 18 2 1144.0
2024 Q1 11,128 15 2 1348.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2025 · 3 incidents

December 18, 2025 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator STRIKING OR BUMPING
101 Coal Inc. · Struck against stationary object

EE was walking back to Shuttle Car from the Continuous Miner, in the #3 Entry on 001 MMU, when EE struck a Roof Bolt strap hanging down from previous mining. EE complained of head and neck "jamming" together causing pain to neck and shoulder. EE seen family physician on 12-22-25, and was placed off work until additional testing/imaging is completed.

January 18, 2025 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
JRL COAL INC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was packing a piece of top belt structure, moved from right to left and felt pain in lower back. Employee stretched and finished shift.

January 2, 2025 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
JRL COAL INC · Accident type, without injuries

Had a reportable roof fall at XC #2, Entry #3, on East Mains. Rock Fall does not have escapeways or airways blocked, it's in a neutral entry. Fall doesn't affect any people or equipment. Area has been dangered off.

2024 · 2 incidents

May 23, 2024 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator MACHINERY
JRL COAL INC · Struck by falling object

Continuous miner was cutting in #3 Entry, in crosscut #20. Had two pieces of rock on the continuous miner standoff, the bottom piece was the larger piece. EE was trying to remove the top piece of rock from the miner, when the top rock moved, both rocks came off together striking EE.

April 16, 2024 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
JRL COAL INC · Struck by falling object

Installing roof bolts in the 3Left Cut, Break 12, Inby Spad #102. This was the first cut took out of 3Left, mined straight ahead. While drilling outside hole, in their first row, the corner on the operator's side fell off striking employee,on backside/left shoulder.