Mining Incidents

Christy Lynn Mine Coal

Black Creek Mining LLC · Underground
Controlled by Travis Fontaine
Coldiron, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518486

Christy Lynn Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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
2001–2002
Latest incident
May 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
18
citations
11
significant & substantial
$10,739
proposed penalties
$606
paid to date
6% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $10,133 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
12
inspections on record
339
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: 339 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Christy Lynn Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$606
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-03-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Christy Lynn Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 1.10 mg/m3 (71% compliant) across 17 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.
1.10
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.31
dust max (mg/m3)
71%
within 1.5 mg/m3
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-06-29.
Silica (quartz)
4.5
silica avg (%)
6.3
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-06-25.
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 Q2 0 2 0
2003 Q4 1,391 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 0 0 0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 555 1 0 1801.8
2002 Q2 3,985 3 1 752.8
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1 2,319 5 4 2156.1
2001 Q4 3,078 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2002 · 1 incident

May 22, 2002 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kincaid Mining Co. Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

INSTALLING HEAD MOTOR ON 102 CONTINIOUS MINER, USING LEGS TO PUSH MINER MOTOR. INJURING RIGHT KNEE.

2001 · 1 incident

December 5, 2001 KY · Coal beltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor rider HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Kincaid Mining Co. Inc. · Struck against stationary object

SUBJECT DRIVING STEEL GROUNDING ROD INTO GROUND WITH HAMMER. HAMMER SLIPPED, MISSING ROD, CAUSING HAND TO HIT STEEL ROD RESULTING IN CRACKING BONE ON LEFT HAND.

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The full compliance file on Christy Lynn Mine

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.