Mining Incidents

#5A Coal

North Star Mining Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Carl Kirk
Dana, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1513061

#5A has $245K in proposed MSHA penalties and $236K outstanding across 5 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Mar 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
328
citations
119
significant & substantial
$245,231
proposed penalties
$7,942
paid to date
3% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $237,289 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
17
inspections on record
1,668
inspection hours
19.7
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.
328 citations across 1,668 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#5A has $245K in proposed MSHA penalties and $236K outstanding across 5 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.
$245K
proposed penalties
$244K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$236K
outstanding
318 assessments are final orders; 5 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #5A shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.55 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 89 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)
2.37
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
89
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-17.
Silica (quartz)
8.5
silica avg (%)
14.5
silica max (%)
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-27.
Noise
0%
over PEL
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-03-18.
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 Q2 757 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 16,920 37 10 2186.8
2008 Q4 19,602 92 32 4693.4
2008 Q3 16,832 7 3 415.9
2008 Q2 12,913 21 10 1626.3
2008 Q1 12,988 48 18 3695.7
2007 Q4 20,749 44 13 2120.6
2007 Q3 18,614 45 18 2417.5
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2 10,595 32 15 3020.3
2007 Q1 1,601 2 0 1249.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

March 10, 2008 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
North Star Mining Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

The fall is located 20' inby survey station #218 in the #3 entry 4 crosscuts outby the section loading point of the 001 MMU. The fall is approx 120' wide X 20' wide X 4'-5' in thickness.

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The full compliance file on #5A

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.