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Straight Creek Mine: 235 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Straight Creek Mine is a temporarily idled coal (bituminous) underground mine in Bell County, Kentucky, operated by Torchlight Advanced Fuels Inc. with 0 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1519702). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 235 citations and orders there with $43,786 in proposed penalties, and 6 accident reports were filed there, with 5 injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 1519702
- Status
- Temporarily Idled since August 21, 2026
- Main commodity
- Coal (bituminous)
- Mine type
- Underground
- County
- Bell County, Kentucky
- Nearest town
- Kettle Island
- Operator
- Torchlight Advanced Fuels Inc.
- Employees
- 0
- MSHA field office
- Barbourville KY Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 235
- Significant and substantial
- 46 (19.6%)
- Closure orders
- 13
- High negligence or reckless
- 3
- Proposed penalties
- $43,786
- Amount paid so far
- $9,280
- Inspections
- 64
- Inspector hours on site
- 3,062
- Citations per inspection
- 3.67 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 6
- Injury and illness cases
- 5
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- September 16, 2026
- Citations issued to contractors here
- 4 ($572 proposed)
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 75 | 18 | $11,435 | 3 |
| 2023 | 103 | 22 | $23,813 | 1 |
| 2024 | 34 | 3 | $5,553 | 1 |
| 2025 | 17 | 3 | $2,364 | 0 |
| 2026 | 6 | 0 | $621 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Straight Creek Mine
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 75.400 | Underground coal mines, safety | 26 |
| 30 CFR 75.370 | Underground coal mines, safety | 20 |
| 30 CFR 75.512 | Underground coal mines, safety | 13 |
| 30 CFR 75.1100-2 | Underground coal mines, safety | 8 |
| 30 CFR 75.503 | Underground coal mines, safety | 8 |
| 30 CFR 75.333 | Underground coal mines, safety | 7 |
| 30 CFR 75.1911 | Underground coal mines, safety | 7 |
| 30 CFR 75.202 | Underground coal mines, safety | 7 |
| 30 CFR 75.1101-10 | Underground coal mines, safety | 6 |
| 30 CFR 75.1914 | Underground coal mines, safety | 6 |
| 30 CFR 72.630 | Part 72 | 5 |
| 30 CFR 75.1725 | Underground coal mines, safety | 5 |
| 30 CFR 75.807 | Underground coal mines, safety | 5 |
| 30 CFR 75.342 | Underground coal mines, safety | 4 |
| 30 CFR 75.606 | Underground coal mines, safety | 4 |
Injury and illness cases at Straight Creek Mine
Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.
| Degree | Cases |
|---|---|
| Days away from work or restricted activity | 5 |
What the accident reports at Straight Creek Mine describe
Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.
| Classification | Reports |
|---|---|
| Fall of roof or back | 3 |
| Handling of materials | 2 |
| Powered haulage | 1 |
Equipment named in accident reports at Straight Creek Mine
| Equipment | Reports |
|---|---|
| Mancar | 1 |
Other open mines in Bell County, Kentucky
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colmar | Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 17 | 71 |
| Balkan | Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 14 | 66 |
| Hances Ridge Split #1 | 4TH Gen Fuels | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 16 | 51 |
| Four Mile | Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 8 | 33 |
| Crockett | Covol Fuels No. 3, LLC | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 21 |
| P-9 Straight Creek | Triple H. Fuels, Inc. | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 14 |
| Middlesboro Tipple | Premium Processing Co., Inc. | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 5 | 12 |
| HCM Plant/Loadout | Hurricane Creek Mining LLC | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 1 | 11 |
| Prep Plant | DDB Energy Resources, LLC | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 6 |
| Four Rivers Coal Inc | Four Rivers Coal Inc | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 2 | 5 |
| Coppers Fork Impoundment | Cardinal Reclamation Company, LLC | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 2 |
| T-12 Viall | Triple H. Fuels, Inc. | Bell County, KY | Coal (bituminous) | 0 | 1 |
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.