Mining Incidents

Coal Hollow Mine Coal

Controlled by Hufford V Williams
Pikeville, Pike County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1519039

Coal Hollow Mine has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $634 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2011–2013
Latest incident
Nov 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
136
citations
8
significant & substantial
$15,753
proposed penalties
$13,562
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,191 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
97
inspections on record
3,553
inspection hours
3.8
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.
136 citations across 3,553 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Coal Hollow Mine has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $634 outstanding across 1 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$14K
paid to date
$634
outstanding
132 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-02-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Coal Hollow Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.52 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 454 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.
0.52
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.12
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
454
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-10-09.
Silica (quartz)
4.9
silica avg (%)
6.3
silica max (%)
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-06-11.
Noise
2%
over PEL
66
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-03-27.
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
2025 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
Show 67 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 512 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 480 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 520 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 520 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 520 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 520 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 496 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2,316 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,960 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 1,352 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,460 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 320 1 0 3125.0
2014 Q4 742 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 7,461 15 2 2010.5
2014 Q2 7,358 16 1 2174.5
2014 Q1 6,234 2 0 320.8
2013 Q4 6,832 7 1 1024.6
2013 Q3 7,148 5 0 699.5
2013 Q2 7,874 5 0 635.0
2013 Q1 6,928 2 0 288.7
2012 Q4 7,644 6 0 784.9
2012 Q3 6,871 4 0 582.2
2012 Q2 8,846 3 0 339.1
2012 Q1 7,296 2 0 274.1
2011 Q3 6,934 2 1 288.4
2011 Q2 8,667 1 0 115.4
2011 Q1 7,137 6 0 840.7
2010 Q4 7,469 5 0 669.4
2010 Q3 4,781 2 0 418.3
2010 Q2 7,388 4 0 541.4
2010 Q1 7,320 2 0 273.2
2009 Q4 7,356 4 1 543.8
2009 Q3 1,640 2 0 1219.5
2009 Q2 2,519 3 0 1190.9
2009 Q1 7,641 1 0 130.9
2008 Q4 7,333 2 0 272.7
2008 Q3 7,070 2 0 282.9
2008 Q2 7,122 3 0 421.2
2008 Q1 7,829 5 0 638.7
2007 Q4 7,118 9 1 1264.4
2007 Q3 7,182 2 0 278.5
2007 Q2 6,903 6 0 869.2
2007 Q1 4,086 3 1 734.2
2006 Q4 334 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2013 · 1 incident

November 1, 2013 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator FALLING/SLIDING/ROLLING MATERIALS
Williams Bros. Coal Co., Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

While employee was watching cable slack, the waterline which was hung from the roof behind him fell, striking him in back, forcing him to the ground. He hit face down on a piece of chain, causing a small cut to his forehead.

2011 · 1 incident

April 22, 2011 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Williams Bros. Coal Co., Inc. · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

EE complained of back pain while pulling slack on shuttle car cable.

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The full compliance file on Coal Hollow 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.