Mining Incidents

# 2 Coal

Bitco Resources Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Kevin R Yonts
Pikeville, Pike County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519422

# 2 has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 8 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2011–2012
Latest incident
Jul 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
321
citations
68
significant & substantial
$65,306
proposed penalties
$56,748
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $8,558 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
78
inspections on record
2,280
inspection hours
14.1
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.
321 citations across 2,280 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

# 2 has $65K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K outstanding across 8 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.
$65K
proposed penalties
$58K
current assessed
$57K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
313 assessments are final orders; 8 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-05-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at # 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.59 mg/m3 (91% compliant) across 161 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.
0.59
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.18
dust max (mg/m3)
91%
within 1.5 mg/m3
161
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-11-20.
Silica (quartz)
5.2
silica avg (%)
6.8
silica max (%)
19
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-11-27.
Noise
7%
over PEL
29
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-11-20.
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
2012 Q4 8,069 52 13 6444.4
2012 Q3 8,952 18 5 2010.7
2012 Q2 8,675 44 12 5072.0
2012 Q1 5,866 28 7 4773.3
2011 Q4 6,622 9 2 1359.1
2011 Q3 6,741 27 3 4005.3
2011 Q2 16,079 48 10 2985.3
2011 Q1 13,700 33 7 2408.8
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q4 12,322 22 4 1785.4
2010 Q3 5,814 22 4 3784.0
2010 Q2 0 2 0
2010 Q1 418 1 0 2392.3
2009 Q4 2,211 2 1 904.6
2009 Q3 1,344 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

July 9, 2012 KY · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Jet LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was positioning waterline to haul UG. A joint had unknowingly got into a bind & when he moved it, it sprang back & hit him in head creating a cut that required stitches.

May 15, 2012 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Jet LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

One employee was throwing cinder blocks through a mandoor to the victim. Through a lack of communication, victim started to pick up a block as another one was being thrown resulting in a pinched finger. Right ring finger required stitches and bandaging.

2011 · 2 incidents

April 20, 2011 KY · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South Akers Mining Company, LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Three men were lifting cable in order to hang it from the top. After hanging the cable 1.5 hours later EE said that he thought he had hurt his leg. He worked the rest of the shift and went home, called that night and went to the doctor the next morning.

April 18, 2011 KY · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider HANDLING OF MATERIALS
South Akers Mining Company, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Men were in the process of hanging cable so shuttle car could haul under it. EE's where holding up cable while another ee twisted wire around it in order to hold it up. He then left section and told another ee that he had strained his groin & that he was going home.

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The full compliance file on # 2

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.