Mining Incidents

Army Trail #1 Coal

Noble Construction · Surface
Controlled by Richard E Noble
Hyden, Leslie County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519679

Army Trail #1 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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
2013
Latest incident
Apr 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
55
citations
19
significant & substantial
$8,489
proposed penalties
$2,294
paid to date
27% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,195 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
8
inspections on record
223
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 223 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Army Trail #1 has $8K in proposed MSHA penalties and $6K 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.
$8K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
53 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-10-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Army Trail #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 8 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.
0.12
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.34
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-07-03.
Silica (quartz)
15.8
silica avg (%)
15.8
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-07-11.
Noise
0%
over PEL
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-07-03.
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
2013 Q3 150 3 1 20000.0
2013 Q2 10,430 2 1 191.8
2013 Q1 9,411 46 16 4887.9
2012 Q4 7,745 2 1 258.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 2 incidents

April 24, 2013 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
T & T Energy, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

operator was getting down off his loader when he slipped and injured his right ankle, spraining it

April 6, 2013 KY · Coal POWERED HAULAGE
T & T Energy, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Operator was attempting to pack a rock out of the pit when the rock shifted to the left side of the bucket causing the loader to turn over on its side. The operator was not injured in this accident. This is for reporting purposes only. The operator worked the rest of his shift and operated an excavator.

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The full compliance file on Army Trail #1

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.