Mining Incidents

Kellioka 1 Coal

Controlled by Thomas R Hamilton
Pineville, Bell County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519539

Kellioka 1 has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 15 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

Watch this mine

Email me when a new MSHA incident is filed at Kellioka 1.

Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2011
Latest incident
Nov 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
174
citations
52
significant & substantial
$43,871
proposed penalties
$25,644
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $18,227 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
24
inspections on record
1,816
inspection hours
9.6
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.
174 citations across 1,816 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Kellioka 1 has $44K in proposed MSHA penalties and $10K outstanding across 15 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.
$44K
proposed penalties
$36K
current assessed
$26K
paid to date
$10K
outstanding
165 assessments are final orders; 15 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-04-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Kellioka 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.60 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 170 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.
0.60
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.65
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
170
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-07-16.
Silica (quartz)
4.0
silica avg (%)
9.3
silica max (%)
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-04-30.
Noise
14%
over PEL
49
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-07-16.
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
2013 Q3 2,443 4 1 1637.3
2013 Q2 10,298 27 10 2621.9
2013 Q1 8,436 10 1 1185.4
2012 Q4 10,471 13 2 1241.5
2012 Q3 12,158 9 5 740.3
2012 Q2 10,147 11 2 1084.1
2012 Q1 12,012 11 2 915.8
2011 Q4 11,020 17 13 1542.6
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q3 8,366 26 8 3107.8
2011 Q2 6,418 16 5 2493.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

November 11, 2011 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
A & M Coal Co., Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Scotch fell during repairs.

For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants

The full compliance file on Kellioka 1

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.