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Smith #2, Harlan County, Kentucky: 120 MSHA citations

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

Smith #2 is a nonproducing coal (bituminous) underground mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, operated by 101 Coal, Inc. with 15 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 1519945). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 120 citations and orders there with $27,919 in proposed penalties, and 5 accident reports were filed there, with 4 injury or illness cases.

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MSHA mine ID

1519945

Status

NonProducing since February 9, 2026

Main commodity

Coal (bituminous)

Mine type

Underground

County

Harlan County, Kentucky

Nearest town

Coalgood

Operator

101 Coal, Inc.

Parent company

Thorberg Collectorate Inc

Employees

15

MSHA field office

Harlan KY Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

120

Significant and substantial

21 (17.5%)

Closure orders

5

High negligence or reckless

3

Proposed penalties

$27,919

Amount paid so far

$7,191

Inspections

31

Inspector hours on site

1,364

Citations per inspection

3.87 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

5

Injury and illness cases

4

Fatalities

0

Latest MSHA record

October 1, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

8 ($1,248 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

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

Standards cited most at Smith #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 Smith #2

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

What the accident reports at Smith #2 describe

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

Equipment named in accident reports at Smith #2

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.