Mining Incidents

CCU Sexton Strip Coal

Controlled by Charles C Ungurean
Cadiz, Harrison County, OH  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3304577

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
13
Years on record
2008–2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
115
citations
26
significant & substantial
$31,451
proposed penalties
$21,508
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 6,833 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 7,763 2 1 257.6
2024 Q4 9,200 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 10,779 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 12,335 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 11,535 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 13,730 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 11,455 0 0 0.0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
February 12, 2025 OH · Coal drill operator Fatality · MACHINERY
CCU Coal and Construction LLC · Struck against a moving object

Employee was operating a DM45 Highwall Drill on a drill bench. Employee was traveling parallel to the edge and the outside edge gave way. The drill slid off the bench and landed 25 feet below.

Reportable incidents

12 on file (excluding fatalities above)

2026 · 1 incident

April 28, 2026 OH · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CCU Coal and Construction LLC · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was climbing down step ladder and slipped off second step causing EE to loose EE's balance, fell stumbled backwards and hit EE's head on the bumper of EE's truck causing a cut that required stitches.

2022 · 2 incidents

February 10, 2022 OH · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CCU Coal and Construction LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking across parking lot and slipped on the ice landing on their shoulder. Continued to work until 2/24/22 when EE informed me of the accident and that it was not getting any better. I instructed EE to go to hospital and they found that EE had a cracked shoulder bone.

February 7, 2022 OH · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
CCU Coal and Construction LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was walking in parking lot and slipped on the ice. Employee fell on arm, continued to work until 3/16, elbow was not healing so they put employee on Restrictive duty.

2019 · 2 incidents

2014 · 2 incidents

December 29, 2014 OH · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech FIRE
Harrison Resources LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Employee was using a cutting torch in tight quarters and a spark caught his pants on fire, caused a small burn on leg.

August 13, 2014 OH · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Harrison Resources LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was stepping down off a tractor and missed the step causing him to slip and twist his ankle.

2012 · 2 incidents

October 18, 2012 OH · Coal outside foreman, leadman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Resources LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was trying to remove a brass bushing from a shaft and when the first half came out the second half spun down around and caught his finger. Had 4 stitches

June 18, 2012 OH · Coal electrician, lineman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Resources LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was checking the resistance of a rotor of a drive motor and pinched his fingers between the rotor and Brake caliper fracturing the tips of 2 fingers.

2009 · 2 incidents

August 17, 2009 OH · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Harrison Resources LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was working on a brake caliper that was locked in his vice and it slipped out and hit his hand. Had 3 stitches put in hand.

June 3, 2009 OH · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Harrison Resources LLC · Struck against a moving object

EE was running a 992 Cat front-end loader and was loading rock trucks. He was backing away from a truck with his boom in the air, he had not noticed that the keeper had come out of pin housing, which let the boom pin come out. The boom dropped and it shook the operator. Took two days off for soreness.

2008 · 1 incident

December 30, 2008 OH · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator MACHINERY
Harrison Resources LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE was operating a Blast Hole Drill when a drill steel came lose from the carrousel at the top of drill mast. He and the Mechanic was trying to set it back into the rack when the steel shifted and pinched his wrist between two drill steels. Took him to Hospital where they took xrays and found he had a hairline crack in his wrist.