Mining Incidents

Jake's Creek Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Gordon, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519059

Jake's Creek has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2008
Latest incident
Sep 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
26
citations
6
significant & substantial
$4,417
proposed penalties
$4,014
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $403 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
6
inspections on record
196
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: 196 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Jake's Creek has $4K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 2 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.
$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
26 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-07-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Jake's Creek shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.17 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 26 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.
0.17
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.67
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
26
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-07-02.
Silica (quartz)
28.1
silica avg (%)
31.3
silica max (%)
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-04-02.
Noise
0%
over PEL
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-07-02.
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 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 1,692 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 25,467 5 1 196.3
2008 Q2 26,775 1 0 37.3
2008 Q1 28,063 1 0 35.6
2007 Q4 26,630 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 28,250 11 5 389.4
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2 29,277 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 26,443 8 0 302.5
2006 Q4 2,025 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

September 23, 2008 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing onto the 777 haul truck when he felt a pain in his lower back.

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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.