Mining Incidents

Frasure Creek 12 Coal

Hazard, Perry County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519298

Frasure Creek 12 has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $508 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2008
57
citations
16
significant & substantial
$15,224
proposed penalties
$12,462
paid to date
82% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,762 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
8
inspections on record
286
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: 286 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Frasure Creek 12 has $15K in proposed MSHA penalties and $508 outstanding across 1 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$13K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$508
outstanding
57 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-06-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Frasure Creek 12 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.22 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.
0.22
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.53
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-09.
Noise
17%
over PEL
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-25.
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
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 0 0 0
2010 Q2 7,962 9 1 1130.4
2010 Q1 3,816 13 2 3406.7
2009 Q4 4,107 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 560 3 0 5357.1
2009 Q2 5,964 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q1 23,093 31 12 1342.4
2008 Q4 3,537 1 1 282.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2009 · 1 incident

March 5, 2009 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Frasure Creek Mining LLC · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects

Was making brace for generator. While wrapping and untangling cable around brace, EE felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.

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