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Trace Fork #2, Letcher County, Kentucky: 241 MSHA citations

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

Trace Fork #2 is a nonproducing coal (bituminous) underground mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, operated by Cumberland Coal Corporation with 3 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1519909). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 241 citations and orders there with $56,460 in proposed penalties, and 3 accident reports were filed there, with 3 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

1519909

Status

NonProducing since August 20, 2024

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Letcher County, Kentucky

Nearest town

Eolia

Operator

Cumberland Coal Corporation

Employees

3

MSHA field office

Harlan KY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

241

Significant and substantial

55 (22.8%)

Closure orders

12

High negligence or reckless

4

Proposed penalties

$56,460

Amount paid so far

$42,787

Inspections

39

Inspector hours on site

1,895

Citations per inspection

6.18 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

3

Injury and illness cases

3

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

August 27, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

30 ($4,360 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Trace Fork #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 Trace Fork #2

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

What the accident reports at Trace Fork #2 describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Trace Fork #2

Other open mines in Letcher 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.