Mining Incidents

Gooden Creek Coal

Eldridge, Walker County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103337

Gooden Creek has $111K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2006–2010
Latest incident
Feb 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
62
citations
14
significant & substantial
$111,320
proposed penalties
$58,085
paid to date
52% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $53,235 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
36
inspections on record
671
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: 671 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Gooden Creek has $111K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$111K
proposed penalties
$58K
current assessed
$58K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
61 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-06-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Gooden Creek shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.12 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 178 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.
0.12
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.37
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
178
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-03-29.
Silica (quartz)
25.2
silica avg (%)
49.5
silica max (%)
12
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-02-10.
Noise
0%
over PEL
62
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-02-09.
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
2020 Q2 0 0 0
2020 Q1 0 0 0
2019 Q4 0 0 0
2019 Q3 39 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
Show 40 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2018 Q2 126 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 243 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 1,347 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 0 0 0
2016 Q1 14,094 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 15,604 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 15,452 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 16,204 2 1 123.4
2015 Q1 11,672 4 3 342.7
2014 Q4 4,209 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 6,337 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 11,220 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 9,784 2 1 204.4
2012 Q1 11,368 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 11,405 1 0 87.7
2011 Q3 12,616 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 9,565 1 0 104.5
2011 Q1 10,804 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 12,578 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 12,058 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 11,279 1 0 88.7
2010 Q1 11,967 5 4 417.8
2009 Q4 12,029 1 0 83.1
2009 Q3 12,869 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 17,950 4 0 222.8
2009 Q1 16,431 3 1 182.6
2008 Q4 15,533 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 13,389 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 11,256 4 2 355.4
2008 Q1 10,754 3 0 279.0
2007 Q4 11,482 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 10,025 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 14,069 5 0 355.4
2007 Q1 14,449 2 1 138.4
2006 Q4 17,450 2 1 114.6
2006 Q3 16,758 14 0 835.4
2006 Q2 13,644 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 426 8 0 18779.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2010 · 1 incident

February 22, 2010 AL · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver POWERED HAULAGE
Birmingham Coal & Coke Co Inc · Struck against a moving object

Operator backed over existing berm, truck overturned while going down bank. 8' height 50-75' vertical.

2006 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on Gooden 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.