Allen Branch Surface Mine has $63K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2014–2015
Latest incident
Sep 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
142
citations
55
significant & substantial
$63,019
proposed penalties
$53,311
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,708 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2014
45
inspections on record
2,239
inspection hours
6.3
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.
142 citations across 2,239 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Allen Branch Surface Mine has $63K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 4 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.
$63K
proposed penalties
$56K
current assessed
$53K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
141 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Allen Branch Surface Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.14 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 218 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.
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
2025 Q4
14,363
0
0
0.0
2025 Q3
13,517
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
17,390
5
0
287.5
2025 Q1
18,675
0
0
0.0
2024 Q4
18,018
1
0
55.5
2024 Q3
18,784
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
17,317
5
1
288.7
2024 Q1
17,149
0
0
0.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
14,882
1
0
67.2
2023 Q3
22,024
0
0
0.0
2023 Q2
24,568
9
1
366.3
2023 Q1
23,616
5
4
211.7
2022 Q4
26,699
0
0
0.0
2022 Q3
22,985
6
2
261.0
2022 Q2
10,327
0
0
0.0
2022 Q1
5,029
5
0
994.2
2021 Q4
696
0
0
0.0
2020 Q4
0
0
0
2020 Q3
0
0
0
2020 Q2
0
0
0
2020 Q1
0
0
0
2019 Q4
0
0
0
2019 Q3
0
0
0
2019 Q2
2,085
0
0
0.0
2019 Q1
5,382
0
0
0.0
2018 Q4
7,409
0
0
0.0
2018 Q3
6,946
3
1
431.9
2018 Q2
8,427
0
0
0.0
2018 Q1
8,213
2
0
243.5
2017 Q4
10,861
0
0
0.0
2017 Q3
10,543
3
1
284.5
2017 Q2
9,233
6
5
649.8
2017 Q1
2,778
5
2
1799.9
2016 Q4
5,155
2
2
388.0
2016 Q3
7,799
3
1
384.7
2016 Q2
5,530
6
3
1085.0
2016 Q1
5,497
7
5
1273.4
2015 Q4
6,662
6
4
900.6
2015 Q3
6,858
35
11
5103.5
2015 Q2
10,854
5
1
460.7
2015 Q1
3,489
12
7
3439.4
2014 Q4
15,774
0
0
0.0
2014 Q3
18,283
2
1
109.4
2014 Q2
17,072
0
0
0.0
2014 Q1
6,915
4
2
578.5
2013 Q4
242
0
0
0.0
Fatalities at this mine
1 recorded
May 28, 2015KY · Coaloutside foreman, leadmanFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Apex Energy, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
The employee was connecting a chain around the bumper of a tractor to a road grader when the grader rolled back and pinned him between to bumper of the tractor and Grader.
Employee was being loaded in the pit area when a rock rolled out of the overburden being loaded and struck the left corner of the truck bed. This caused the employee to be thrown around in the seat. The seat belt pulled him causing pain in lower back and hips.
August 25, 2014KY · Coalfront-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operatorSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Employee was walking up berm to get on bulldozer and slipped bending his hand back causing pain.
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