Mining Incidents

Elk Creek Coal

Controlled by Donald Lunsford
Manchester, Clay County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519449

Elk Creek has $807 in proposed MSHA penalties and $607 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 2013
8
citations
3
significant & substantial
$807
proposed penalties
$200
paid to date
25% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $607 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
15
inspections on record
174
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: 174 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Elk Creek has $807 in proposed MSHA penalties and $607 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.
$807
proposed penalties
$807
current assessed
$200
paid to date
$607
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-09-18.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Elk Creek shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.30 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 5 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.
0.30
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.75
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-09-18.
Noise
0%
over PEL
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-09-18.
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
2013 Q3 2,735 1 0 365.6
2013 Q2 2,090 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 0 0 0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 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 Elk Creek

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.