Mining Incidents

Hawkeye Mine Coal

Sparta, Randolph County, IL  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 1103226

Hawkeye Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2012–2018
Latest incident
Dec 2018
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
36
citations
5
significant & substantial
$10,658
proposed penalties
$10,658
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
44
inspections on record
1,382
inspection hours
2.6
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.
36 citations across 1,382 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Hawkeye Mine has $11K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$11K
proposed penalties
$11K
current assessed
$11K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
36 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-31.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Hawkeye Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.14 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 287 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.
0.14
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.85
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
287
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-05-28.
Silica (quartz)
10.8
silica avg (%)
29.8
silica max (%)
43
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-03-31.
Noise
1%
over PEL
69
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-03-25.
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
2025 Q4 4,869 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 5,027 1 0 198.9
2025 Q2 4,071 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 832 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 640 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 629 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 0 0 0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 487 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 1,195 5 0 4184.1
2023 Q1 1,273 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 5,249 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 5,515 1 0 181.3
2022 Q2 5,688 1 0 175.8
2022 Q1 4,069 1 0 245.8
2021 Q4 628 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 1,107 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 1,661 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 4,113 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,825 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 4,676 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,802 2 1 416.5
2020 Q1 6,402 1 0 156.2
2019 Q4 9,264 1 0 107.9
2019 Q3 8,593 1 0 116.4
2019 Q2 7,311 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 6,512 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 5,469 1 0 182.8
2018 Q3 6,339 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 8,084 2 0 247.4
2018 Q1 8,459 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 7,382 1 0 135.5
2017 Q3 8,377 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 8,777 1 0 113.9
2017 Q1 8,824 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 9,014 2 0 221.9
2016 Q3 8,775 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 9,245 2 0 216.3
2016 Q1 10,007 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 9,454 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 12,509 1 1 79.9
2015 Q2 11,133 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 10,788 1 0 92.7
2014 Q4 9,887 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 11,614 1 0 86.1
2014 Q2 12,270 1 1 81.5
2014 Q1 12,420 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 10,931 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 10,470 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 13,176 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 13,729 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 12,884 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 10,519 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 13,628 3 0 220.1
2012 Q1 14,048 2 0 142.4
2011 Q4 10,124 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 3,968 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,529 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2018 · 1 incident

December 6, 2018 IL · Coal FIRE
Knight Hawk Coal, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

After pulling a truck out of the mud, they got in the pick up truck to drive it down the road and were told that the truck was on fire. They were unable to put the fire out. Cause of the fire is believed to be a fuel leak.

2012 · 1 incident

July 20, 2012 IL · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
Knight Hawk Coal, LLC · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee stated he was greasing the bottom end of the lift cylinder of a dozer when grease sprayed onto his face and underneath his safety glasses into his eyes. Prescription eye drops were prescribed by the emergency room doctor.

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The full compliance file on Hawkeye Mine

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.