Mining Incidents

Bledsoe #1 Coal

A L Select Inc · Underground
Controlled by Robert Ivens
Stevenson, Jackson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103006

Bledsoe #1 has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2002–2005
Latest incident
Dec 2005
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
135
citations
40
significant & substantial
$18,260
proposed penalties
$525
paid to date
3% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $17,735 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
54
inspections on record
1,487
inspection hours
9.1
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.
135 citations across 1,487 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Bledsoe #1 has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $18K outstanding across 0 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$525
paid to date
$18K
outstanding
124 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-01-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Bledsoe #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 27 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.74
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
27
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-05-05.
Silica (quartz)
6.0
silica avg (%)
6.0
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-12-30.
Noise
0%
over PEL
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-12-20.
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
2007 Q1 0 1 0
2006 Q4 150 12 2 80000.0
2006 Q2 1,920 25 10 13020.8
2006 Q1 1,920 7 2 3645.8
2005 Q4 1,501 2 0 1332.4
2005 Q3 1,040 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,150 13 0 11304.3
2005 Q1 1,050 7 4 6666.7
Show 19 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q4 1,186 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,120 2 2 1785.7
2004 Q2 1,250 2 0 1600.0
2004 Q1 1,480 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 1,510 4 2 2649.0
2003 Q2 2,071 10 3 4828.6
2003 Q1 1,580 22 6 13924.1
2002 Q4 728 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 360 17 7 47222.2
2002 Q2 623 7 1 11236.0
2002 Q1 734 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,840 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,060 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 280 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 40 4 1 100000.0
2000 Q2 480 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2005 · 1 incident

December 7, 2005 AL · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
A L Select Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

BACKING SCOOP OUT OF ENTRY NEGOTIATING TURN TO A BREAK WITH HAND ON SIDE OF SCOOP, CATCHING HAND BETWEEN SCOOP AND RIB AT CORNER OF BREAK - BOTTOM UNEVEN WITH A PITCH WHERE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

2002 · 1 incident

July 2, 2002 AL · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
A L Select Inc · Accident type, without injuries

ROOF FALL HAPPENED AT THE INTERSECTION ON THE NO.2 ENTRY AT THE LAST OPEN CROSSCUT, LOCATED ONE CROSSCUT IN BY THE FEEDER. THE FALL APPEARS TO BE 5-7 FT HIGH, 20 FT WIDE AND LENGTH IS UNDETERM INED. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS, WATER AND PRESSURE IN THE LAMINATED ROCK.

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The full compliance file on Bledsoe #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.