Mining Incidents

Cotton Coal #2 Mine Coal

Cotton Coal Co Inc · Surface
Controlled by Mark Craft
Kona, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518201

Cotton Coal #2 Mine has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2002
Latest incident
Mar 2002
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
49
citations
17
significant & substantial
$6,703
proposed penalties
$5,690
paid to date
85% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,013 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
32
inspections on record
371
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: 371 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Cotton Coal #2 Mine has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-07-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Cotton Coal #2 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.17 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 32 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.
0.17
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.38
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
32
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-03-07.
Noise
0%
over PEL
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-09-20.
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
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 2 1
2006 Q2 2,600 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,950 6 3 3076.9
2005 Q4 2,340 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 462 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 1,031 6 1 5819.6
Show 18 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q2 1,818 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,135 7 2 3278.7
2003 Q4 625 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 843 5 3 5931.2
2003 Q2 553 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,261 3 2 2379.1
2002 Q4 1,536 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,430 1 0 699.3
2002 Q2 1,939 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,147 5 1 2328.8
2001 Q4 3,461 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,856 6 1 2100.8
2001 Q2 4,131 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 2,373 1 0 421.4
2000 Q4 1,637 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 678 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 1,388 1 1 720.5
2000 Q1 2,220 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2002 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Cotton Coal #2 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.