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Cave Branch Plant: 49 MSHA citations

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

Cave Branch Plant is an active coal (bituminous) processing facility in Harlan County, Kentucky, operated by Bluegrass Natural Resources, LLC with 70 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1516054). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 49 citations and orders there with $6,865 in proposed penalties, and 6 accident reports were filed there, with 6 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

1516054

Status

Active since November 14, 2022

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Facility

County

Harlan County, Kentucky

Nearest town

Cumberland

Operator

Bluegrass Natural Resources, LLC

Parent company

Javelin Global Commodities (uk) Ltd

Employees

70

MSHA field office

Harlan KY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

49

Significant and substantial

5 (10.2%)

Closure orders

1

High negligence or reckless

0

Proposed penalties

$6,865

Amount paid so far

$6,865

Inspections

27

Inspector hours on site

898

Citations per inspection

1.81 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

6

Injury and illness cases

6

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

October 26, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

23 ($10,151 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Cave Branch 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 Cave Branch Plant

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

What the accident reports at Cave Branch Plant describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Cave Branch 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.