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HWM # 36 Coal

Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Surface

Controlled by SDC LLC; Cox Enterprises LLC

Eolia, Letcher County, KY · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3304709

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2018
Latest incident: Mar 2018

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2014

citations

significant & substantial

$7,834

proposed penalties

$7,453

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
2022 Q3	437	0	0	0.0
2022 Q1	6,133	4	1	652.2
2021 Q2	7,830	9	0	1149.4
2021 Q1	3,226	0	0	0.0
2020 Q4	1,054	0	0	0.0
2020 Q3	3,124	3	0	960.3
2020 Q1	5,286	1	0	189.2
2019 Q3	3,136	5	3	1594.4

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

2018 · 1 incident

March 7, 2018 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator MACHINERY

Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by flying object

Crew was attempting to tram the Highwall Miner while victim in fork loader observed the trailing cable. From the confines of the loader 25 feet away a piece of metal from the Highwall Miner track flew through the slightly opened side glass of the loader striking the employee and causing employee to lose vision in left eye.