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: 169 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Mine #1 has $2K 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-07-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Mine #1 recorded 0.00 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2001.
Injury rate, 2001
ⓘThis rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 6.94 and the all-US-mining average was 5.26 cases per 100 workers.
In Kentucky, coal mining averaged 7.69 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2001 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2000 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year
Employees
2004
5
2003
5
2002
4
2001
7
2000
8
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Mine #1 sits in Letcher County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 3.5% of county employment.
Local economic context
ⓘCounty figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Letcher County, Kentucky · Population 21,146
3.5%
Mining share of county employment
$40,501
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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 Q1
2,745
0
0
0.0
2003 Q4
4,819
0
0
0.0
2003 Q3
3,863
1
0
258.9
2003 Q2
1,462
1
0
684.0
2003 Q1
3,294
0
0
0.0
2002 Q4
1,821
1
0
549.1
2002 Q3
1,146
0
0
0.0
2002 Q2
4,059
2
1
492.7
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2002 Q1
2,523
0
0
0.0
2001 Q4
5,032
14
3
2782.2
2001 Q3
4,024
0
0
0.0
2001 Q2
10,059
5
2
497.1
2001 Q1
2,448
0
0
0.0
2000 Q4
1,479
1
0
676.1
2000 Q3
2,287
0
0
0.0
2000 Q2
11,114
1
0
90.0
2000 Q1
10,683
1
0
93.6
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
50 on file
1998 · 2 incidents
December 22, 1998KY · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
OPERATOR WAS PULLING BRUSH TO BUILD ROAD TREE CAUGHT BEHING ANOTHER TREE AND JUMPED OVER STRICKING LABORER ON LOWER PART OF RIGHT LEG SUBJECT WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WHERE LEG WAS DETERMINED TO BE BROKEN.
1997 · 2 incidents
August 13, 1997KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
EMPLOYEE WAS OPERATING DOZER DESTROYING SHED TO BUILD POND 2X6 SPRANG LOOSE AND JUMPED ABOUT 30 TO 35 FEET STRIKCING VICTIM ON BACK GOING UP TO NECK AND HEAD.
1996 · 4 incidents
July 30, 1996KY · Coalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerFIRE
EMPLOYEE WAS USIN CHAINSAW TO CUT BRUSH AND TREE'S. WHEN THE EMPLOYEE ATTEMPTED TO REFUEL THE CHAINSAW IT CAUGHT FIRE. BURNING EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT HAND AND FOREARM.
July 2, 1996KY · Coalbulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineerMACHINERY
OPERATOR WAS PUSHING SPOIL FROM FACE. ENCOUNTERED LARGE ROCK. WAS PUSHING ROCK TO BOTTOM OF SPOIL & DOZER BLAD SLID OVER OVER & DROPPED FRONT OF DOZER, ELEVATING REAR, AS OPERATOR SHIFTED TO R EVERSE, THROWING OPERATOR FROM SEAT. RIGHT ELBOW HIT DOOR LATCH CAUSING DOOR TO OPEN. AS EE PASSED THROUGH DOR, RT. HIPT HIT THROTTLE KILLENG ENGINE. EE LANDED ON PUSH BEAM ON BACK HIP.
March 14, 1996KY · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
EMPLOYEE WAS CHECKING GEAR BOX ON CAT 16G GRADER. HE HAD HIS LEFT ARM LAYING ON TOP OF GEAR BOX HOLDING FLASH LIGHT LOOKING AT THE SPROCKET CHAIN. THE GEAR BOX PIVITED UP CATCHING HIS LEFT FOR EARM BETWEEN THE BOX AND METAL STOP.
January 8, 1996KY · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
OPER. WAS USING DOZER TO PUSH SPOIL TO LOADER IN THE WHITESBURG PIT HE MISJUDGEDTHE DISTANCE GOING OVER THE EDGE OF THE SPOIL DOZER FELL APP 25FT OVERTURNING COMING TO REST IN WHITESBURG PIT
January 6, 1995KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
TRUCK DRIVER MUST GET ON LOADER TO GET THEIR DESTINATION TICKET WHEN DRIVER JUMPED FROM LOADER HE WALKED A FEW STEPS AND STARTED HURTING IN HIS CHEST. HE WENT ON AND DROVE THE TRUCK. HE STOPPE D BY THE HOSPITAL. THEY SAID IT WAS ASTHMA BUT THEY READ THE X-RAY WRONG. THEY CALLED HIM BACK 3 DAYS LATER AND SAID HIS LUNG WAS COLLAPSED.
September 2, 1992KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanPOWERED HAULAGE
UNEXPECTED FALL OF PORTION OF OUTSIDE HIGHWALL. DAMAGE OCCURED TO 988B LOADER. OPERATOR WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR EXAMINATION AND OBSERVATION THEN RELEASED 6-25-92 AND ALLOWED TO RETURN TO WOR K ON 6-29-92 WITH NO APPARENT SERIOUS OR LONG TERM INJURY.
January 17, 1992KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
(I.NAME) THE TRUCK DRIVER STEPPED OUT OF HIS TRUCK TO GET HIS COAL TICKET TO TAKE WILL HIM TO THE TIPPLE HIS FOOT HIT A SLICK SPOT AND TWISTED AND CAUSED HIM TO FALL AND HIS FOOT BROKE A TINY BONE IN IT AND BRUISED HIS FOOT HE WORE A CAST FOR 3 WEEKS.
1989 · 7 incidents
December 30, 1989KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanSLIP OR FALL OF PERSON