Mining Incidents

#1 Coal

Midgard Mining Co., LLC · Underground
Controlled by Josh Osborne
Ashcamp, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518827

#1 has $595K in proposed MSHA penalties and $574K outstanding across 7 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Mar 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
333
citations
160
significant & substantial
$595,243
proposed penalties
$20,850
paid to date
4% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $574,393 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
20
inspections on record
1,871
inspection hours
17.8
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.
333 citations across 1,871 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#1 has $595K in proposed MSHA penalties and $574K outstanding across 7 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$595K
proposed penalties
$595K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$574K
outstanding
321 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-04-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.36 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 191 samples.

Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
0.36
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.67
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
191
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-04-15.
Silica (quartz)
18.4
silica avg (%)
32.9
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-10-19.
Noise
5%
over PEL
22
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-01-08.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q2 3,081 1 0 324.6
2008 Q1 6,744 47 18 6969.2
2007 Q4 7,840 84 41 10714.3
2007 Q3 10,114 10 5 988.7
2007 Q2 10,129 40 19 3949.1
2007 Q1 9,161 14 6 1528.2
2006 Q4 8,663 23 11 2655.0
2006 Q3 9,347 18 13 1925.8
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q2 9,996 18 6 1800.7
2006 Q1 10,268 15 9 1460.8
2005 Q4 8,891 16 5 1799.6
2005 Q3 4,135 26 15 6287.8
2005 Q2 2,697 14 9 5191.0
2005 Q1 3,343 7 3 2093.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2008 · 2 incidents

March 13, 2008 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler MACHINERY
Midgard Mining Co., LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Tramming Cutting Machine and ran over foot.

January 16, 2008 KY · Coal section foreman, bullgang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, shift boss MACHINERY
Midgard Mining Co., LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Operating a cutting machine and his coat caught a roof bolt; jerking his head back, straining neck.

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The full compliance file on #1

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.