Mining Incidents

Black Bird Coal

LeJunior, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518488

Black Bird has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $29K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2003
Latest incident
Nov 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
313
citations
167
significant & substantial
$30,313
proposed penalties
$1,696
paid to date
6% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $28,617 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
83
inspections on record
1,770
inspection hours
17.7
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.
313 citations across 1,770 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Black Bird has $30K in proposed MSHA penalties and $29K outstanding across 1 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.
$30K
proposed penalties
$30K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$29K
outstanding
289 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-03-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Black Bird shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.70 mg/m3 (88% compliant) across 82 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.
0.70
dust avg (mg/m3)
12.83
dust max (mg/m3)
88%
within 1.5 mg/m3
82
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-10-19.
Silica (quartz)
7.7
silica avg (%)
11.1
silica max (%)
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-08-05.
Noise
0%
over PEL
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-05-27.
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
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 27 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 8 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q3 18 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 8 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 7 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 154 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 14 5 0 357142.9
2007 Q3 0 1 0
2007 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 31 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 81 2 0 24691.4
2006 Q1 37 2 0 54054.1
2003 Q4 1,692 15 10 8865.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

November 3, 2003 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler

BUILDING A CRIB AND SOMEONE THREW HIM A CRIB BLOCK IT HIT HIS FINGER.

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