Mining Incidents

Gabes Creek Coal

Controlled by James River Coal Company
Big Laurel, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518976

Gabes Creek has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $425 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
2007
Latest incident
Mar 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
21
citations
9
significant & substantial
$2,102
proposed penalties
$1,677
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $425 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
9
inspections on record
271
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: 271 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gabes Creek has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $425 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$425
outstanding
19 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-04-07.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Gabes Creek shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.05 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 20 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.
0.05
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.10
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
20
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-11-06.
Noise
0%
over PEL
20
samples
Most recent sample: 2007-11-06.
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
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 0 6 3
2008 Q1 20,704 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 19,119 2 0 104.6
2007 Q3 19,273 2 0 103.8
2007 Q2 19,190 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 18,080 0 0 0.0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2006 Q4 19,903 2 0 100.5
2006 Q3 18,399 9 6 489.2
2006 Q2 17,914 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 4,768 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

March 2, 2007 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
James River Coal Service · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

As employee was climbing down off his rock truck at quit time, he placed his right foot on the ground. When he put his full weight on it, he broke a bone in his right foot.

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The full compliance file on Gabes 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.