Mining Incidents

Millers Creek Surface Coal

Controlled by J Mark Campbell
Phyllis, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519111

Millers Creek Surface has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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
2009
Latest incident
Jul 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
49
citations
27
significant & substantial
$22,914
proposed penalties
$20,752
paid to date
91% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,162 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
15
inspections on record
535
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: 535 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Millers Creek Surface has $23K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$23K
proposed penalties
$23K
current assessed
$21K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-09-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Millers Creek Surface shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.18 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 38 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.
0.18
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.98
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
38
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-03-18.
Silica (quartz)
14.6
silica avg (%)
14.6
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-01-23.
Noise
12%
over PEL
26
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-02-02.
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
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 1,543 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,548 1 0 219.9
2010 Q2 8,211 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 7,534 8 3 1061.9
2009 Q4 8,234 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 8,096 6 3 741.1
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2 13,164 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 16,408 5 2 304.7
2008 Q4 15,182 7 6 461.1
2008 Q3 15,606 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 16,937 9 5 531.4
2008 Q1 15,470 7 5 452.5
2007 Q4 15,882 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 14,522 6 3 413.2
2007 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2009 · 2 incidents

July 17, 2009 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Inc · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE was picking up wheel and rim to put into back of vehicle, when he hurt his right arm.

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The full compliance file on Millers Creek Surface

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.