Mining Incidents

Freelandville East Coal

Sunrise Coal, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Hallador Energy Company
Freelandville, Knox County, IN  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1202339

Freelandville East has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $240 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
2024
Latest incident
Apr 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
76
citations
11
significant & substantial
$21,993
proposed penalties
$21,423
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $570 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
61
inspections on record
1,002
inspection hours
7.6
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.
76 citations across 1,002 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Freelandville East has $22K in proposed MSHA penalties and $240 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.
$22K
proposed penalties
$22K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$240
outstanding
76 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-08-30.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Freelandville East shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.24 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 145 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.
0.24
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.51
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
145
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-02-04.
Silica (quartz)
7.4
silica avg (%)
12.0
silica max (%)
12
samples
Most recent sample: 2024-05-01.
Noise
10%
over PEL
70
samples
Most recent sample: 2025-02-04.
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
2025 Q4 3,935 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 3,943 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 3,495 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 3,385 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,452 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,524 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 7,030 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 12,097 0 0 0.0
Show 80 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 8,587 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 5,783 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 17,050 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 32,244 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 20,873 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 9,119 1 0 109.7
2022 Q1 0 0 0
2021 Q4 0 0 0
2021 Q3 0 0 0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 0 0 0
2020 Q4 0 0 0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 0 0 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2018 Q2 0 0 0
2018 Q1 600 1 0 1666.7
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 128 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2017 Q1 0 0 0
2016 Q4 0 0 0
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 21 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 639 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 1,913 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,640 1 0 274.7
2015 Q2 3,007 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 9,216 1 0 108.5
2014 Q4 13,102 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 10,771 1 1 92.8
2014 Q2 11,692 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 13,347 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 11,774 1 1 84.9
2013 Q3 14,591 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 13,819 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 13,723 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 11,775 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 12,308 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 13,729 1 1 72.8
2012 Q1 11,279 1 0 88.7
2011 Q3 467 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 10,313 2 0 193.9
2011 Q1 13,568 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 14,077 1 0 71.0
2010 Q3 14,550 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 13,627 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 13,176 4 0 303.6
2009 Q4 13,173 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 14,259 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 14,487 4 0 276.1
2009 Q1 15,314 7 0 457.1
2008 Q4 12,774 3 1 234.9
2008 Q3 14,971 7 1 467.6
2008 Q2 15,786 1 0 63.3
2008 Q1 15,337 5 0 326.0
2007 Q4 13,692 10 3 730.4
2007 Q3 13,409 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 13,779 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 12,151 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 11,273 1 0 88.7
2006 Q3 11,278 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 11,302 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 12,626 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 10,805 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 13,675 8 3 585.0
2005 Q2 7,570 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 12,672 7 0 552.4
2004 Q4 10,663 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 9,329 8 0 857.5
2004 Q2 10,180 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 2,774 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 0 0 0
2003 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

April 5, 2024 IN · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Sunrise Coal, LLC · Fall to the walkway or working surface

Injured was walking in the clean coal yard and tripped over a rock. EE landed on EE's hand and sprained EE's wrist. EE was seen at the Dr. on 4/8/2024 and a splint was placed on EE's wrist.

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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.