Mining Incidents

Eagle 3 Coal

New Jet LLC · Underground
Dorton, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519534

Eagle 3 has $270K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 11 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
9
Years on record
2011–2015
Latest incident
Mar 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
561
citations
118
significant & substantial
$270,367
proposed penalties
$139,109
paid to date
51% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $131,258 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2010
64
inspections on record
4,292
inspection hours
13.1
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.
561 citations across 4,292 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Eagle 3 has $270K in proposed MSHA penalties and $39K outstanding across 11 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.
$270K
proposed penalties
$178K
current assessed
$139K
paid to date
$39K
outstanding
557 assessments are final orders; 11 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-10-14.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Eagle 3 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.36 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 404 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.
0.36
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.63
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
404
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-07-30.
Silica (quartz)
8.6
silica avg (%)
24.8
silica max (%)
38
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-07-16.
Noise
7%
over PEL
57
samples
Most recent sample: 2015-07-09.
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
2015 Q4 0 2 0
2015 Q3 11,808 2 0 169.4
2015 Q2 29,593 11 1 371.7
2015 Q1 24,482 22 5 898.6
2014 Q4 23,612 36 7 1524.6
2014 Q3 23,648 38 8 1606.9
2014 Q2 27,825 46 12 1653.2
2014 Q1 28,201 30 7 1063.8
Show 11 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2013 Q4 25,897 39 5 1506.0
2013 Q3 21,020 48 12 2283.5
2013 Q2 23,288 36 10 1545.9
2013 Q1 21,930 46 7 2097.6
2012 Q4 11,370 28 5 2462.6
2012 Q3 8,521 40 7 4694.3
2012 Q2 10,918 29 6 2656.2
2012 Q1 6,432 25 7 3886.8
2011 Q4 9,013 22 6 2440.9
2011 Q3 7,472 17 4 2275.2
2011 Q2 7,505 38 9 5063.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

9 on file

2015 · 2 incidents

March 13, 2015 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Jet LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

While moving miner cable, felt pain in back.

March 9, 2015 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
New Jet LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

While cleaning loose rock from around a cable spooling reel chain. EE pulled cable catching 2nd EE's finger on the chain sprocket.

2014 · 3 incidents

June 9, 2014 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech FALL OF FACE/RIB/PILLAR/SIDE/HIGHWALL
New Jet LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

While repairing a miner waterline rib rolled onto employee. Broken left lower leg & spinal cord injury.

March 10, 2014 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
New Jet LLC · Struck by falling object

While inch tramming RB on next row of bolts rock fell striking him in back of Rt leg.

January 22, 2014 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
New Jet LLC · Struck by falling object

EE was setting first belt in #6 Right when a piece of draw rock fell hitting him on his left shoulder.

2013 · 1 incident

October 12, 2013 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
New Jet LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

While tightening bolts with hammer and wrench, hammer ricocheted off fender striking finger.

2012 · 2 incidents

December 10, 2012 KY · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator POWERED HAULAGE
Jet Coal Co. Inc. · Struck against a moving object

While driving a shuttle car he ran over something in the road that bounced him out of his seat, he then ran into rib and stopped he got off the SC. When he tried to stand up he developed a muscle spasm in his mid back.

October 3, 2012 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Jet Coal Co. Inc. · Struck by falling object

Piece of rock fell from roof between the bolts and rib striking his left side.

2011 · 1 incident

January 3, 2011 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Twin Ridge Development Inc · Fall from machine

EE lost footing and slipped from top of JD 200 Excavator due to icy conditions.

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The full compliance file on Eagle 3

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.