Mining Incidents

Chavies Job #7 Coal

B & W Resources Inc · Surface
Controlled by Lipari Energy
Krypton, Perry County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518781

Chavies Job #7 has $174K in proposed MSHA penalties and $38K outstanding across 14 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2010–2022
Latest incident
Jun 2022
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
334
citations
146
significant & substantial
$173,614
proposed penalties
$101,390
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $72,224 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
58
inspections on record
2,490
inspection hours
13.4
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.
334 citations across 2,490 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Chavies Job #7 has $174K in proposed MSHA penalties and $38K outstanding across 14 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.
$174K
proposed penalties
$140K
current assessed
$101K
paid to date
$38K
outstanding
325 assessments are final orders; 14 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-07-20.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Chavies Job #7 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.13 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 168 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.
0.13
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.11
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
168
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-13.
Silica (quartz)
12.6
silica avg (%)
43.1
silica max (%)
4
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-07-07.
Noise
0%
over PEL
99
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-01.
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
2023 Q1 4,213 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 8,695 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,420 1 1 106.2
2022 Q2 14,964 1 0 66.8
2022 Q1 15,471 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 14,393 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 10,086 8 0 793.2
2021 Q2 7,165 0 0 0.0
Show 47 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 3,443 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 523 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,778 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 10,452 8 0 765.4
2014 Q4 19,358 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 19,055 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 21,912 18 6 821.5
2014 Q1 20,513 5 2 243.7
2013 Q4 24,479 3 0 122.6
2013 Q3 28,584 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 34,571 22 13 636.4
2013 Q1 29,899 22 13 735.8
2012 Q4 27,882 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 31,050 10 3 322.1
2012 Q2 32,224 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 32,414 5 1 154.3
2011 Q4 31,803 6 4 188.7
2011 Q3 31,103 39 22 1253.9
2011 Q2 29,497 5 2 169.5
2011 Q1 26,059 27 18 1036.1
2010 Q4 26,974 8 2 296.6
2010 Q3 26,513 29 14 1093.8
2010 Q2 31,114 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 23,488 34 9 1447.5
2009 Q4 20,207 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 17,227 26 12 1509.3
2009 Q2 20,042 3 1 149.7
2009 Q1 24,096 9 2 373.5
2008 Q4 18,113 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 3,837 2 0 521.2
2008 Q2 0 0 0
2008 Q1 3,136 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 5,288 2 1 378.2
2007 Q3 2,249 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 14,169 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 24,066 23 8 955.7
2006 Q4 36,347 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 38,533 2 2 51.9
2006 Q2 43,374 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 42,312 5 0 118.2
2005 Q4 41,418 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 30,735 3 2 97.6
2005 Q2 21,860 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 17,942 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 18,868 8 8 424.0
2004 Q3 5,480 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2022 · 1 incident

June 8, 2022 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
B & W Resources Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

As the employee climbed onto the water truck, EE heard and felt a large pop in the right shoulder. This was immediately followed by intense pain and lack of movement.

2012 · 1 incident

April 25, 2012 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
B & W Resources Inc · Struck against a moving object

Operating a dozer and felt pain in back & neck.

2011 · 1 incident

November 15, 2011 KY · Coal greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
B & W Resources Inc · Struck against stationary object

Changing oil in a drill. He dropped a filter and reached to get it and cut left hand on piece of metal.

2010 · 1 incident

May 21, 2010 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
B & W Resources Inc · Fall from machine

As EE was walking down the ladder on a Cat. 992G Loader, he lost his footing, causing him to fall and striking his back on the metal steps. Diagnosis is pending.

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The full compliance file on Chavies Job #7

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.