Mining Incidents

HWM #73 Coal

Partridge, Harlan County, KY  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4609414

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
6
Years on record
2013–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
71
citations
18
significant & substantial
$53,014
proposed penalties
$17,032
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 4,288 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 6,133 2 0 326.1
2025 Q1 5,694 3 0 526.9
2024 Q3 6,558 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 4,532 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 7,971 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6,858 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 6,266 1 1 159.6
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

6 on file

2025 · 1 incident

April 14, 2025 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE attempted to lift DEF fluid and experienced severe lower back pain. EE requested to be taken to Hospital. MSHA Inspector interviewed EE and recommend this to be a reportable accident. EE also spoke to Superintendent and Foreman.

2018 · 2 incidents

March 16, 2018 KY · Coal INUNDATION
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

73 Highwall Miner inadvertently cut into an abandoned underground mine causing the HWM #73 Miner pit to become floooded

February 3, 2018 KY · Coal electrician, lineman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was attempting to tighten bolts on a cutterhead module of a Highwall Miner when the wrench slipped and employee fell to the ground breaking right leg.

2016 · 1 incident

September 7, 2016 KY · Coal electrician, lineman MACHINERY
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE was attempting to install anchor pin and pin moved and mashed left pinkie finger between anchor pin and the Highwall Mine removing it at the first joint.

2013 · 2 incidents

November 21, 2013 KY · Coal electrician, lineman HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by flying object

Holding roller chain with hammer while another employee was attempting to knock out a connecting link with a hammer and a sliver of metal struck employee under his safety glasses

November 18, 2013 KY · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Commonwealth Mining, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While knocking pins out of the Right Angle Conveyor of the Pasco Highwall Miner with a slate bar the the pins came out causing the slate bar to strike the employee in the hand and face.