Mining Incidents

# 4 Coal

Controlled by Jessica R Lester
Rockhouse, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519208

# 4 has $147K in proposed MSHA penalties and $119K outstanding across 16 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2010
Latest incident
Aug 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
535
citations
108
significant & substantial
$147,037
proposed penalties
$24,809
paid to date
17% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $122,228 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
74
inspections on record
4,755
inspection hours
11.3
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.
535 citations across 4,755 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

# 4 has $147K in proposed MSHA penalties and $119K outstanding across 16 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.
$147K
proposed penalties
$144K
current assessed
$25K
paid to date
$119K
outstanding
531 assessments are final orders; 16 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-03-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at # 4 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.55 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 390 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.
0.55
dust avg (mg/m3)
11.76
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
390
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-11-06.
Silica (quartz)
5.2
silica avg (%)
11.6
silica max (%)
25
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-09-03.
Noise
2%
over PEL
46
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-06-09.
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
2015 Q4 4,480 13 4 2901.8
2015 Q3 7,840 24 2 3061.2
2015 Q2 5,600 18 2 3214.3
2015 Q1 5,040 54 15 10714.3
2014 Q4 5,600 30 7 5357.1
2014 Q3 7,280 35 4 4807.7
2014 Q2 7,280 35 4 4807.7
2014 Q1 7,280 37 5 5082.4
Show 21 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 6,720 40 8 5952.4
2013 Q3 6,720 45 10 6696.4
2013 Q2 5,936 51 14 8591.6
2013 Q1 0 1 0
2012 Q2 520 1 0 1923.1
2012 Q1 12,167 31 8 2547.9
2011 Q4 8,086 9 1 1113.0
2011 Q3 2,489 1 0 401.8
2011 Q2 1,927 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 10,202 7 1 686.1
2010 Q4 10,251 22 4 2146.1
2010 Q3 8,864 3 1 338.4
2010 Q2 9,303 11 5 1182.4
2010 Q1 9,975 4 1 401.0
2009 Q4 9,668 8 2 827.5
2009 Q3 8,736 11 2 1259.2
2009 Q2 8,963 19 4 2119.8
2009 Q1 7,065 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 7,340 18 4 2452.3
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 2,823 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2010 · 1 incident

August 27, 2010 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator ELECTRICAL
Hubble Mining Company LLC · Contact with electrical current

EE was beginning to make a belt and power move, he was attaching hangers to side power center to hang the miner cable in once move begins and somehow he got shocked.

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The full compliance file on # 4

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.