Mining Incidents

Brushy Mountain Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Kay Jay, Knox County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519201

Brushy Mountain has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2010
Latest incident
Sep 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
45
citations
9
significant & substantial
$7,041
proposed penalties
$6,072
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $969 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
12
inspections on record
350
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: 350 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Brushy Mountain has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $25 outstanding across 6 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$6K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$25
outstanding
45 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-11-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Brushy Mountain shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.35 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 38 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.
0.35
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.49
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
38
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-09-02.
Silica (quartz)
9.4
silica avg (%)
17.3
silica max (%)
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-05-19.
Noise
10%
over PEL
20
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-05-12.
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
2012 Q1 728 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 3,146 14 0 4450.1
2011 Q3 24,165 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 28,194 11 0 390.2
2011 Q1 27,691 3 2 108.3
2010 Q4 28,829 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 30,690 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 29,686 7 4 235.8
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 25,975 9 3 346.5
2009 Q4 26,750 1 0 37.4
2008 Q3 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2010 · 1 incident

September 7, 2010 KY · Coal outside foreman, leadman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was starting a water pump and went to jump from pump platform back to bank of pond, he slipped and hit his head on the bucket of an excavator that was parked there.

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The full compliance file on Brushy Mountain

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.