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Horace Garrison Hill controller

MSHA controller ID: C15279

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
16
Mines on record
3
Years on record
2002–2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
3,024
citations
1,208
significant & substantial
$4,372,309
proposed penalties
$623,884
paid to date
14% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,748,425 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
413
inspections on record
14,909
inspection hours
20.3
citations per 100 inspection hours
ⓘ This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
3,024 citations across 14,909 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘ Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$4.4M
proposed penalties
$3.9M
current assessed
$624K
paid to date
$3.3M
outstanding
2,891 assessments are final orders; 83 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2011
2
2010
2
2009
4 (1f)
2006
1
2005
2
2004
2
2003
1
2002
2

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
June 9, 2009 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
D & C Mining Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Supply car was bringing concrete block into break to build permanent stoppings when chain broke letting supply car roll through curtain crushing foreman between supply car and 94L bridge causing fatal injury.

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