Mining Incidents

Watson Branch Coal

Solid Fuel, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Darrell Wagner
Clairfield, Claiborne County, TN  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4003273

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Oct 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
708
citations
160
significant & substantial
$211,892
proposed penalties
$92,125
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
2017 Q4 10 15 3 1500000.0
2017 Q1 2,930 41 12 13993.2
2016 Q3 11,275 32 10 2838.1
2016 Q2 2,154 47 14 21819.9
2016 Q1 10,250 33 10 3219.5
2015 Q4 1,375 37 9 26909.1
2015 Q3 8,081 9 5 1113.7
2015 Q2 1,140 14 4 12280.7
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

2017 · 1 incident

October 10, 2017 TN · Coal miner, nec HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Solid Fuel, Inc. · Struck by flying object

While an ee was using a hammer & chisel to break chain apart another ee was observing. A small sliver of metal hit that ee in left wrist.