Mining Incidents

Beetree 2 Coal

Salyersville, Magoffin County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519820

Beetree 2 has $10K 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
2019–2025
Latest incident
Apr 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
43
citations
16
significant & substantial
$10,414
proposed penalties
$4,490
paid to date
43% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $5,924 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2017
26
inspections on record
1,379
inspection hours
3.1
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.
43 citations across 1,379 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Beetree 2 has $10K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$6K
outstanding
42 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-12-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Beetree 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.21 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 95 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.
0.21
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.64
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
95
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-05-20.
Silica (quartz)
10.3
silica avg (%)
42.4
silica max (%)
14
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-05-29.
Noise
2%
over PEL
47
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-05-20.
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
2025 Q3 567 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 1,500 5 1 3333.3
2025 Q1 7,558 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 8,753 8 4 914.0
2024 Q3 4,357 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 2,977 1 0 335.9
2024 Q1 2,533 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 2,013 0 0 0.0
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q4 14,800 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 19,571 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 10 4 0 400000.0
2019 Q1 24,954 6 3 240.4
2018 Q4 22,612 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 25,987 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 26,127 5 3 191.4
2018 Q1 21,829 3 0 137.4
2017 Q4 3,026 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2025 · 1 incident

April 14, 2025 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Foothills Mining, LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Cutting a bent leveling jack off drill tech rd50, torch flared from built up grease and water, burned mechanics left arm and scorched beard.

2019 · 1 incident

April 4, 2019 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ember Energy, LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Working on putting a chain on a sprocket. Operator was pushing down on pry bar when incident occurred. Strained abdominal area.

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The full compliance file on Beetree 2

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.