Mining Incidents

Island #1 Prep Plant Coal

Lst Inc · Facility
Controlled by Knight Kem & Brett
Island, Mclean County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518077

Island #1 Prep Plant has $330 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
2
Years on record
1999–2000
Latest incident
Feb 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
7
citations
0
significant & substantial
$330
proposed penalties
$330
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
5
inspections on record
292
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: 292 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Island #1 Prep Plant has $330 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.
$330
proposed penalties
$330
current assessed
$330
paid to date
$0
outstanding
6 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-05-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Island #1 Prep Plant shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.54 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 3 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.
0.54
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.90
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2000-02-08.
Noise
0%
over PEL
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2000-03-08.
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
2000 Q2 1,900 6 0 3157.9
2000 Q1 1,769 1 0 565.3

Fatalities at this mine

1 recorded
February 14, 2000 KY · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Lst Inc · Struck by powered moving object

AT APPROXIMATELY 7:45 PM ON FEBRUARY 14, 2000 DECEASED EMPLOYEE, PREPARATION PLANT OPERATOR, WALKED FROM THE PREPARATION PLANT INTO THE ACTIVE WORKING AREA OF A 275C MICHIGAN FRONT END LOADER. THE OPERATOR OF THE FRONT END LOADER WAS UNABLE TO SEE THE EMPLOYEE. HE WAS STRUCK BY THE BUCKET OF THE 275C FRONT END LOADER WHILE THE OPERATOR WAS FILLING THE BUCKET OF THE FRONT END LOADER

Reportable incidents

1 on file (excluding fatalities above)

1999 · 1 incident

February 25, 1999 KY · Coal loader head operator, roscoe operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lst Inc · Struck against stationary object

OPER WAS CLEANING COAL BUILDUP FROM TOP OF TAIL ROLLER GUARD STRIKING LEFT HAND ON GUARD CAUSINGINJURY TO LEFT HAND. INFECTION SET UP

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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.