Mining Incidents

Dogwood #5 Mine Coal

Old Dominion Energy Inc · Underground
Eolia, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519632

Dogwood #5 Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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
2013
Latest incident
Feb 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
29
citations
5
significant & substantial
$3,499
proposed penalties
$3,499
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2012
7
inspections on record
495
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: 495 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dogwood #5 Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-06-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Dogwood #5 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.27 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 40 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.
0.27
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.77
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
40
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-05-23.
Silica (quartz)
12.2
silica avg (%)
12.4
silica max (%)
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-05-29.
Noise
22%
over PEL
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-05-23.
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
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
2013 Q3 142 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 6,587 8 3 1214.5
2013 Q1 6,548 19 2 2901.6
2012 Q4 3,895 2 0 513.5
2012 Q3 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2013 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Dogwood #5 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.