Mining Incidents

Dutton Hill Mine No. 2 Coal

Oakman, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103496

Dutton Hill Mine No. 2 has $4K 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
2
Years on record
2017
Latest incident
Dec 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2017
15
citations
3
significant & substantial
$4,034
proposed penalties
$4,034
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2016
20
inspections on record
314
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: 314 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Dutton Hill Mine No. 2 has $4K 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-10-24.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Dutton Hill Mine No. 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.17 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 75 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)
1.18
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
75
samples
Most recent sample: 2020-07-28.
Silica (quartz)
7.8
silica avg (%)
13.1
silica max (%)
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-06-05.
Noise
0%
over PEL
24
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-10-29.
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
2021 Q2 1,213 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,912 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 2,529 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,170 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 2,379 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 12,221 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 11,918 2 1 167.8
2019 Q3 12,718 0 0 0.0
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q2 10,203 1 0 98.0
2019 Q1 12,820 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 11,685 2 1 171.2
2018 Q3 13,564 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 10,289 2 1 194.4
2018 Q1 14,539 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 18,050 4 0 221.6
2017 Q3 18,658 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 13,217 3 0 227.0
2017 Q1 18,228 1 0 54.9
2016 Q4 6,648 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

December 14, 2017 AL · Coal utility man, shift tech, service/dump truck operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Fall from machine

WHILE BACKED IN TO FUEL CAT EXCAVATOR, EMPLOYEE DIDN'T NOTICE BIG DRIED UP CLUMP OF DIRT ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE THE CAB OF SERVICE TRUCK, WHEN EE EXITED THE CAB EE TRIPPED OVER THE CLUMP OF MUD AND FELL ON TO EE FACE AND LEFT SHOULDER.

August 2, 2017 AL · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
Cedar Lake Mining, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was outside of cab and reached inside to turn off roof-mounted air conditioner, and got middle and index fingers too close to the fan and it cut them on the tips.

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The full compliance file on Dutton Hill Mine No. 2

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.