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Totz Prep Plant, Harlan County, Kentucky: 74 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Totz Prep Plant is an active coal (bituminous) processing facility in Harlan County, Kentucky, operated by 4TH Gen Fuels with 15 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1510657). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 74 citations and orders there with $11,944 in proposed penalties, and 1 accident report was filed there, with 1 injury or illness case.

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MSHA mine ID

1510657

Status

Active since October 1, 1980

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Facility

County

Harlan County, Kentucky

Nearest town

Totz

Operator

4TH Gen Fuels

Employees

15

MSHA field office

Harlan KY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

74

Significant and substantial

14 (18.9%)

Closure orders

2

High negligence or reckless

0

Proposed penalties

$11,944

Amount paid so far

$10,015

Inspections

32

Inspector hours on site

1,177

Citations per inspection

2.31 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

1

Injury and illness cases

1

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

September 10, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

44 ($6,505 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at Totz Prep Plant

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at Totz Prep Plant

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at Totz Prep Plant describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at Totz Prep Plant

Other open mines in Harlan County, Kentucky

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.