Mining Incidents

Hartridge Coal

Civil, LLC · Surface
Controlled by John T Quintrell
Coalgood, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519013

Hartridge has $53K in proposed MSHA penalties and $573 outstanding across 6 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2007–2008
Latest incident
Oct 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
90
citations
33
significant & substantial
$53,417
proposed penalties
$41,561
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $11,856 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
23
inspections on record
528
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: 528 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hartridge has $53K in proposed MSHA penalties and $573 outstanding across 6 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.
$53K
proposed penalties
$42K
current assessed
$42K
paid to date
$573
outstanding
88 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-12-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Hartridge shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 33 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.61
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
33
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-12-18.
Noise
0%
over PEL
24
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-12-18.
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
2009 Q2 6,717 2 0 297.8
2009 Q1 13,899 9 3 647.5
2008 Q4 13,832 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 14,379 9 3 625.9
2008 Q2 23,135 18 6 778.0
2008 Q1 21,431 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 19,959 4 2 200.4
2007 Q3 21,062 37 15 1756.7
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2 23,820 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 25,982 7 3 269.4
2006 Q4 27,823 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 25,065 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 15,085 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2008 · 1 incident

October 13, 2008 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE
Appolo Fuels Inc · Struck against a moving object

EE as operating atriculator truck to be loaded. Another EE was loading is truck with a 988 loader, when the bucket hit the truck, causing a jolt to EE. His back was jolted, causing his right leg to have numbness.

2007 · 3 incidents

October 31, 2007 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY
Appolo Fuels Inc · Struck against a moving object

Was moving rock and material with dozer and dozer blade slipped off edge of rock causing dozer to jolt.

June 4, 2007 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator OTHER
Appolo Fuels Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee possibly had a stroke while working. Was sitting in cab of highwall miner when another employee noticed slurred speech.

April 11, 2007 KY · Coal driller, highwall operator, highwall drill operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Appolo Fuels Inc · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was walking on catwalk by rear powerhead - slipped and fell against chain take-up. (Insecure footing.)

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The full compliance file on Hartridge

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.