Mining Incidents

Gibson County Coal, LLCOperator

Controlled by Alliance Resource Partners LP
MSHA Operator ID: P23809
Fatalities
7
Total incidents
1,044
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2000–2026

Safety benchmark

Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.

Fatality-count percentile
98th

More recorded fatalities than 98% of operators on file.

Rank
#15of 739

Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.

Vs industry mean
4.3×

Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.

This operator
7
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume

Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.

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Top causes

  • SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON4 fatalities · 59 non-fatal
  • MACHINERY2 fatalities · 112 non-fatal
  • FALL OF ROOF OR BACK1 fatality · 454 non-fatal
  • HANDLING OF MATERIALS186 non-fatal
  • HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)74 non-fatal
  • POWERED HAULAGE54 non-fatal

Incident timeline

2026
5
2025
17
2024
23
2023
28
2022
33
2021
10
2020
9
2019
31
2018
46
2017
35
2016
10
2015
24
2014
30 (1f)
2013
28
2012
35 (1f)
2011
26
2010
36
2009
28
2008
37 (1f)
2007
55 (3f)
2006
57
2005
35
2004
75
2003
57
2002
86
2001
144 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

7 recorded
Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The victim was in the process of cutting through the inner left-side side plate. When the cut was completed, the cat frame pivoted upward, pinning the victim between the cat track and frame of the feeder. The side plates connect the hopper jack assembles to the cat frame. The victim was working on n Auxier Welding Inc belt feeder.

Fall to the walkway or working surface

Employee was helping to pour concrete in the shaft, the hose is directed to the shaft walls as needed. The hose was over loaded with material when the concrete came out of the bucket too fast, this caused the hose to surge and knock employee and his co-workers off their feet, resulting a fracture to employee's left ankle.

Struck by falling object

Employee was installing the second roof bolt on the right when a large rock fell from the roof (10' x 5' x 8""-10"") pinning him to the roof bolter. An MSHA investigation is ongoing.

Fall down raise, shaft or manway

While being lowered in sinking bucket, a strap and clevis engaged with shaft door upsetting the sinking bucket exposing three individuals to a fall hazard resulting in three fatalities.

Fall down raise, shaft or manway

While being lowered in sinking bucket, a strap and clevis engaged with shaft door upsetting the sinking bucket exposing three individuals to a fall hazard resulting in three fatalities.

Fall down raise, shaft or manway

While being lowered in sinking bucket, a strap and clevis engaged with shaft door upsetting the sinking bucket exposing three individuals to a fall hazard resulting in three fatalities.

Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

THE VICTIM WAS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING HIS JOY CONTINUOUS MINER FROM THE #3 ENTRY TO THE #4 ENTRY ON #3 UNIT WHENHE WAS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE RIB AND THE HEAD OF THE CONTINUOUS MINER WHICH INFLI CTED THE FATAL INJURIES.