Mining Incidents

Job No 17 Coal

LCC Kentucky LLC · Surface
Ransom, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517302

Job No 17 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $452 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
1993–1995
Latest incident
Oct 1995
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
16
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,113
proposed penalties
$661
paid to date
59% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $452 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
14
inspections on record
184
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: 184 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Job No 17 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $452 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$661
paid to date
$452
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-02-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, 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
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 1,708 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 3,014 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 6,267 7 0 1117.0
2003 Q4 5,191 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 3,019 6 2 1987.4
2003 Q2 3,477 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 4,315 0 0 0.0
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q4 2,993 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 3,814 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,872 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 1,080 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

1995 · 1 incident

October 25, 1995 KY · Coal INUNDATION
Sunny Ridge Mining Company Inc · Accident type, without injuries

CONTUR METHOD SURFACE MINING WAS BEING CONDUCTEDON THE WILLIAMSON SEAM WHEN THE 992 LOADER WAS CLEANING THE LAST OF THE PIT, UNCOVERED A ADEEP MINE WHICH WAS FULL OF WATER, THIS WATAER RAN DOW N THE DRAIN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL WHERE IT GOT INTO ONE HOUSE AND IN THE YARD OF ANOTHER ONE. ROCKS, DEBRI WAS WASHED AROUND BOTH HOUSES CLEAN UP IS BEING DONE.

1994 · 2 incidents

May 6, 1994 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ridgetop Mining Inc · Struck by falling object

THE AUGER CREW WAS RETRACTING AUGER FLIGHTS END EE WAS STACKING FLIGHTS THE STACK BECAME UNEVEN & THE FLIGHTS BEGAN TO FALL AN AUGER FLIGHT CAME FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE PIE STRICKING HIM ON THE FOOT HE WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE THEY TOOK XRAYS OF HIS FOOT DETERMING IT WAS BROKE

April 8, 1994 KY · Coal HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Ridgetop Mining Inc · Struck by flying object

EE WAS TIGHTENING BOLTS ON THE AUGER USING A 4 TO 1 WRENCH THE WRENCH SLIPPED & FLEW UP HITTING EE IN THE MOUTH HE HAD A BAD CUT ON HIS MOUTH & TOOTH LOSS

1993 · 2 incidents

August 3, 1993 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ridgetop Mining Inc · Struck against stationary object

UNHOOKING THE CABLE FROM THE MACHINE WHEN HIS HAND CAME ACROSS THE CABLE AND CUT THE INSIDE OF THE RIGHT HAND.

February 15, 1993 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ridgetop Mining Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

BENT OVER TO PICK UP PUSH BEAM LOCKS & HURT BACK

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The full compliance file on Job No 17

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.