Mining Incidents

#7 Coal

Viper Coal, LLC · Underground
Controlled by Jody Dale Puckett
Virgie, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519390

#7 has $142K in proposed MSHA penalties and $127K outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2010
Latest incident
Nov 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
366
citations
128
significant & substantial
$142,135
proposed penalties
$13,986
paid to date
10% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $128,149 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
33
inspections on record
1,786
inspection hours
20.5
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.
366 citations across 1,786 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#7 has $142K in proposed MSHA penalties and $127K outstanding across 10 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.
$142K
proposed penalties
$141K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$127K
outstanding
358 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-12-20.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #7 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.64 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 100 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.
0.64
dust avg (mg/m3)
15.39
dust max (mg/m3)
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
100
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-11-22.
Silica (quartz)
5.8
silica avg (%)
12.9
silica max (%)
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-12-09.
Noise
0%
over PEL
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-06-20.
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 Q1 0 6 2
2011 Q4 6,720 32 16 4761.9
2011 Q3 5,720 80 28 13986.0
2011 Q2 9,360 109 40 11645.3
2011 Q1 4,037 23 9 5697.3
2010 Q4 5,999 42 18 7001.2
2010 Q3 2,718 8 1 2943.3
2010 Q2 10,539 39 8 3700.5
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 10,158 23 6 2264.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2010 · 3 incidents

November 29, 2010 KY · Coal section foreman, bullgang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, shift boss SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Mercy Mining, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Preshifting the life shelter was crossing belt back to buggy and slipped on waterline twisting left knee.

September 28, 2010 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Mercy Mining, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Roof Fall in Northwest Mains #2 Entry (2 breaks inby spad #130) measuring 5' thick x 100' long x 16' wide.

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The full compliance file on #7

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.