Management was made aware at 11:30 am that the telehandler been used to clean in the slope would not start and was blocking the slope car. It was located about 600 feet from the slope bottom. MSHA was notified at 11:40 a.m. There was room to walk around the telehandler to ride the slope car to surface. At 1:16 p.m. slope was cleared and MSHA was notified.