Mining Incidents

#12A Coal

CKJ Enterprises, Inc · Underground
Controlled by Charles Collins
Hindman, Knott County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518887

#12A has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2007–2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
196
citations
63
significant & substantial
$28,776
proposed penalties
$10,142
paid to date
35% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,634 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
21
inspections on record
1,196
inspection hours
16.4
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.
196 citations across 1,196 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#12A has $29K in proposed MSHA penalties and $17K outstanding across 1 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.
$29K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$17K
outstanding
191 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #12A shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.69 mg/m3 (88% compliant) across 147 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.
0.69
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.37
dust max (mg/m3)
88%
within 1.5 mg/m3
147
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-12.
Silica (quartz)
6.4
silica avg (%)
23.8
silica max (%)
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-01-22.
Noise
11%
over PEL
19
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-17.
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
2009 Q3 48 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 2,197 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 9,588 64 25 6675.0
2008 Q4 9,136 47 13 5144.5
2008 Q3 1,924 16 1 8316.0
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 1,804 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 356 0 0 0.0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q3 7,105 22 10 3096.4
2007 Q2 8,566 3 1 350.2
2007 Q1 8,945 4 3 447.2
2006 Q4 8,779 3 0 341.7
2006 Q3 8,332 4 0 480.1
2006 Q2 9,844 7 3 711.1
2006 Q1 9,049 2 0 221.0
2005 Q4 9,728 18 6 1850.3
2005 Q3 7,260 6 1 826.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 1 incident

March 6, 2009 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Marshall Mining Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Cutting tape with a belt knife, it slipped and cut his left upper leg.

2007 · 1 incident

August 7, 2007 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator POWERED HAULAGE
Ember Contracting Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Employee was traveling underground on personnel carrier to begin shift. He stopped to allow another employee to exit carrier and allowed carrier to roll backwards. He caught himself between carrier and mine top.

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The full compliance file on #12A

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.