Mining Incidents

Dusty Fork Mine Coal

F & G Resourses LLC · Surface
Saul, Knox County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518348

Dusty Fork Mine has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $537 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
73
citations
46
significant & substantial
$13,795
proposed penalties
$13,258
paid to date
96% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $537 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
31
inspections on record
572
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: 572 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dusty Fork Mine has $14K in proposed MSHA penalties and $537 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.
$14K
proposed penalties
$14K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$537
outstanding
71 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2007-04-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Dusty Fork Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.25 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 47 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.
0.25
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.65
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
47
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-06-11.
Silica (quartz)
25.6
silica avg (%)
55.0
silica max (%)
4
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-05-12.
Noise
0%
over PEL
39
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-06-11.
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 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
2007 Q2 1,771 3 1 1694.0
2007 Q1 2,463 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 6,206 22 14 3545.0
2006 Q3 5,855 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 7,720 8 5 1036.3
2006 Q1 8,308 6 5 722.2
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2005 Q3 10,440 7 2 670.5
2005 Q2 10,977 3 3 273.3
2005 Q1 6,828 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 9,404 7 7 744.4
2004 Q3 6,586 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 6,635 4 1 602.9
2004 Q1 5,358 5 2 933.2
2003 Q4 6,773 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 800 5 3 6250.0
2003 Q2 400 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q1 3,710 1 1 269.5
2001 Q3 504 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 0 0 0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Dusty Fork 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.