Defeated Creek has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12K 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
2024–2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2023
80
citations
8
significant & substantial
$18,135
proposed penalties
$6,201
paid to date
34% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,934 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2023
12
inspections on record
972
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: 972 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Defeated Creek has $18K in proposed MSHA penalties and $12K 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.
$18K
proposed penalties
$18K
current assessed
$6K
paid to date
$12K
outstanding
77 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2025-06-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Defeated Creek shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 68 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.
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
0
0
0
2025 Q3
2,823
0
0
0.0
2025 Q2
25,242
25
1
990.4
2025 Q1
28,307
23
6
812.5
2024 Q4
24,244
0
0
0.0
2024 Q3
24,755
0
0
0.0
2024 Q2
22,570
12
0
531.7
2024 Q1
22,776
8
0
351.2
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4
19,705
0
0
0.0
2023 Q3
16,912
7
1
413.9
2023 Q2
13,415
0
0
0.0
2023 Q1
5,363
5
0
932.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
2 on file
2025 · 1 incident
June 23, 2025KY · Coalsecurity guard, watchmanOTHER
Contract security guard employee was found in (personal vehicle) with driver's window down and vehicle running with air conditioning on. Security guard was thought to be asleep but when checked was not breathing and did not have a pulse. This is not due to no accident or injury at the mine site.
2024 · 1 incident
September 9, 2024KY · Coalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
Employee was backing up EE's run in the shot material on the Caterpillar D10T Dozer when a rock rolled out of the wind roll and the dozer backed up onto the rock and then slide off the rock jarring the employee.
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