Mining Incidents

Brookside Loadout Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Ages, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517880

Brookside Loadout has $51K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
8
Years on record
1997–2007
Latest incident
Feb 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
352
citations
130
significant & substantial
$50,889
proposed penalties
$44,128
paid to date
87% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,761 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
80
inspections on record
1,723
inspection hours
20.4
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.
352 citations across 1,723 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Brookside Loadout has $51K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 11 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.
$51K
proposed penalties
$49K
current assessed
$44K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
345 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-11-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Brookside Loadout shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.30 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 126 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.
0.30
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.95
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
126
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-11-04.
Noise
4%
over PEL
85
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-11-04.
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
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
Show 58 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q4 0 0 0
2015 Q3 0 0 0
2015 Q2 0 0 0
2015 Q1 0 0 0
2014 Q4 0 0 0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q1 291 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 1,491 3 1 2012.1
2011 Q3 2,815 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 3,487 3 1 860.3
2011 Q1 3,590 6 1 1671.3
2010 Q4 3,137 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 3,616 5 0 1382.7
2010 Q2 4,543 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 4,221 7 1 1658.4
2009 Q4 4,689 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 8,561 2 0 233.6
2009 Q2 10,263 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 10,587 8 0 755.6
2008 Q4 9,027 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 9,406 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 7,506 15 2 1998.4
2008 Q1 6,935 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 7,547 10 1 1325.0
2007 Q3 7,103 10 1 1407.9
2007 Q2 6,508 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 8,683 13 0 1497.2
2006 Q4 9,790 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 9,850 34 17 3451.8
2006 Q2 9,503 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 8,079 56 38 6931.6
2005 Q4 7,612 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 6,689 9 1 1345.5
2005 Q2 6,435 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 6,194 7 0 1130.1
2004 Q4 6,102 8 2 1311.0
2004 Q3 5,805 14 1 2411.7
2004 Q2 6,058 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 4,806 20 7 4161.5
2003 Q4 4,148 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,922 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 4,379 19 5 4338.9
2003 Q1 4,252 19 11 4468.5
2002 Q4 3,132 5 3 1596.4
2002 Q3 3,384 20 7 5910.2
2002 Q2 2,820 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 3,061 16 6 5227.0
2001 Q4 2,967 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,907 14 10 4816.0
2001 Q2 3,221 2 0 620.9
2001 Q1 15,865 2 1 126.1
2000 Q4 5,549 7 3 1261.5
2000 Q3 4,939 5 5 1012.4
2000 Q2 3,956 4 2 1011.1
2000 Q1 5,158 9 3 1744.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

8 on file

2007 · 1 incident

February 19, 2007 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer OTHER
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

At 08:40 am this morning, Employee was found slumped over in a dozer by another employee. He was pronounced dead by the emergency room Doctor from a massive heart attack at the Harlan A R Hospital.

2005 · 1 incident

July 11, 2005 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was helping beat a bushing off a gear when a piece of metal broke off, striking the employee in the left forearm on the ulna side.

2003 · 1 incident

2001 · 1 incident

February 15, 2001 KY · Coal scalper-screen operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE NOTIFIED EMPLOYER ON 3/1 OF AN ALLEGED BACK INJURY ON 2/15/01. EE ALLEGES HE HURT HIS BACK WHILE SHOVELING WET COAL FROM UNDER A BELTLINE. AS OF THIS DATE THERE HAS BEEN NO TREATMENT FOR BACK INJURY.

2000 · 1 incident

April 3, 2000 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EMPLOYEE WASMOVING A PIECE OF 8 INCH BY 10 INCH PIECE OF CHANNEL, WHEN HE TWISTED TO LAY IT DOWN, HE FELT A PAIN IN LOWER BACK.

1998 · 1 incident

February 10, 1998 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS GETTING ON TOP OF A CRUSHER TO CLEAN OUT CHUTE. HIS FOOT SLIPPED, HE STARTED TO FALL, CAUGHT HIMSELF TO KEEP FROM FALLING AND TWISTED HIS BACK.

1997 · 2 incidents

August 27, 1997 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Fall down stairs

THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING DOWN STEPS WHEN HE STEPPED ON SIDE RAIL AND LOST HIS FOOTING. WHEN EMPLOYEE FELL HIS LEG WENT THROUGHT HE RAIL STRIKIGN A PIECE OF ANGLE BRACE CUTTING EMPLOYEE'S LEG.

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The full compliance file on Brookside Loadout

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.