Mining Incidents

#9 Coal

Controlled by Greg Damron
Dana, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518881

#9 has $76K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2010–2013
Latest incident
Aug 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
426
citations
105
significant & substantial
$76,319
proposed penalties
$75,106
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,213 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2005
92
inspections on record
5,480
inspection hours
7.8
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.
426 citations across 5,480 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#9 has $76K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 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.
$76K
proposed penalties
$75K
current assessed
$75K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
416 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-06-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #9 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.84 mg/m3 (86% compliant) across 574 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.
0.84
dust avg (mg/m3)
9.89
dust max (mg/m3)
86%
within 1.5 mg/m3
574
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-03-10.
Silica (quartz)
5.4
silica avg (%)
27.9
silica max (%)
42
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-03-18.
Noise
2%
over PEL
56
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-12-11.
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
2014 Q2 2,823 1 0 354.2
2014 Q1 10,983 18 4 1638.9
2013 Q4 13,408 18 2 1342.5
2013 Q3 13,812 28 5 2027.2
2013 Q2 13,579 19 6 1399.2
2013 Q1 13,189 23 6 1743.9
2012 Q4 11,701 13 3 1111.0
2012 Q3 10,622 17 2 1600.5
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2012 Q2 12,410 24 5 1933.9
2012 Q1 11,335 13 6 1146.9
2011 Q4 11,577 11 3 950.2
2011 Q3 11,639 8 5 687.3
2011 Q2 12,294 15 3 1220.1
2011 Q1 11,491 17 4 1479.4
2010 Q4 12,165 13 4 1068.6
2010 Q3 12,376 10 3 808.0
2010 Q2 11,540 10 2 866.6
2010 Q1 11,691 16 4 1368.6
2009 Q4 13,620 19 3 1395.0
2009 Q3 10,892 15 5 1377.2
2009 Q2 9,982 15 4 1502.7
2009 Q1 11,122 4 1 359.6
2008 Q4 10,819 4 0 369.7
2008 Q3 9,847 25 8 2538.8
2008 Q2 10,582 8 3 756.0
2008 Q1 9,613 9 2 936.2
2007 Q4 10,896 3 1 275.3
2007 Q3 10,690 15 4 1403.2
2007 Q2 11,699 4 0 341.9
2007 Q1 11,541 4 1 346.6
2006 Q4 12,268 5 1 407.6
2006 Q3 10,432 2 0 191.7
2006 Q2 8,310 8 2 962.7
2006 Q1 9,074 4 0 440.8
2005 Q4 9,820 5 2 509.2
2005 Q3 6,924 3 1 433.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

August 15, 2013 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Cheyenne Enterprises Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Roof bolting and piece of drill steel struck above eye.

2010 · 1 incident

June 28, 2010 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Cheyenne Enterprises Inc · Accident type, without injuries

5 breaks inby portal. Roof fall 3'5" h x 8' w x 40" l. Fell between bolts in an area of a hillseam. Roof is solid sandstone and this was a hillseam.

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The full compliance file on #9

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.