Mining Incidents

Mine No 17 Coal

Premium Coal · Underground
Controlled by James C Justice III
Devonia, Anderson County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003279

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2006–2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
67
citations
24
significant & substantial
$8,925
proposed penalties
$8,001
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
2009 Q2 11,462 1 0 87.2
2009 Q1 27,466 9 2 327.7
2008 Q4 20,457 25 8 1222.1
2008 Q3 21,642 18 6 831.7
2008 Q2 9,893 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 0 0 0
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2009 · 7 incidents

March 31, 2009 TN · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was tramming scoop from outside to face. Got his light cord hung in roof bolt or plate jerking head around.

March 25, 2009 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Got left hand between left index finger and thumb between wrench and drill steel.

January 23, 2009 TN · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
National Coal Corporation · Struck by powered moving object

Hanging curtain up, got bumped by shuttle car.

2008 · 2 incidents

December 9, 2008 TN · Coal continuous miner helper, coal mole helper, bridgeman MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The operator was lowering the head of the miner from the operator side as the employee was looking underneath the machine with his left arm lying on the miner pan, catching arm between the pan and head on the off side of miner, breaking employee's arm.

August 19, 2008 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Mashed right wrist and fingers drilling hole to install roof bolt.

2006 · 1 incident

October 30, 2006 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was installing roof bolts when his glove became caught on the bolt while it was rotating & it twisted his right hand.