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Bear Branch 2, Perry County, Kentucky: 1,871 MSHA citations

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

Bear Branch 2 is an active coal (bituminous) underground mine in Perry County, Kentucky, operated by Blue Diamond Coal Co. with 82 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1518565). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 1,871 citations and orders there with $1,010,255 in proposed penalties, and 25 accident reports were filed there, with 24 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

1518565

Status

Active since May 11, 2020

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Perry County, Kentucky

Nearest town

Hazard

Operator

Blue Diamond Coal Co.

Parent company

Sev.en Global Investments A.s.

Employees

82

MSHA field office

Hazard KY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

1,871

Significant and substantial

411 (22.0%)

Closure orders

13

High negligence or reckless

30

Proposed penalties

$1,010,255

Amount paid so far

$762,247

Inspections

269

Inspector hours on site

11,632

Citations per inspection

6.96 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

25

Injury and illness cases

24

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

November 4, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

89 ($24,481 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Bear Branch 2

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 Bear Branch 2

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

What the accident reports at Bear Branch 2 describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Bear Branch 2

Other open mines in Perry 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.