Mining Incidents

Mill Branch Operation Mine No 1 Coal

Fleenor Inc · Surface
Controlled by Greg Fleenor
Whitesburg, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519050

Mill Branch Operation Mine No 1 has $5K 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
2007–2009
Latest incident
Oct 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
43
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,902
proposed penalties
$4,902
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
14
inspections on record
446
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: 446 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mill Branch Operation Mine No 1 has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
43 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-05-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mill Branch Operation Mine No 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.25 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 51 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.
0.25
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.40
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
51
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-06-29.
Silica (quartz)
10.2
silica avg (%)
12.6
silica max (%)
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-06-03.
Noise
20%
over PEL
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-07-06.
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
2012 Q1 0 0 0
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 830 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 1,040 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 1,700 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 2,280 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 5,352 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 5,880 8 0 1360.5
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q1 6,744 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 4,320 5 0 1157.4
2009 Q3 1,620 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 6,860 1 0 145.8
2009 Q1 7,200 1 1 138.9
2008 Q4 8,294 5 0 602.8
2008 Q3 6,930 8 1 1154.4
2008 Q2 6,032 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 4,670 4 1 856.5
2007 Q4 4,350 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,780 6 1 1587.3
2007 Q2 2,620 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 2,760 5 0 1811.6
2006 Q4 2,000 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 1 incident

October 6, 2009 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Fleenor Inc · Fall from machine

EE stepped out of dozer cab, slipped and fell to the ground.

2007 · 1 incident

December 15, 2007 KY · Coal miner, prospector, nec HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Fleenor Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Accidental discharge of firearm while deer hunting on company property. Victim was not an employee of the company.

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The full compliance file on Mill Branch Operation Mine No 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.