Mining Incidents

Mine 1 Coal

Controlled by Meral Williams
Louisa, Lawrence County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518220

Mine 1 has $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
115
citations
58
significant & substantial
$21,335
proposed penalties
$5,182
paid to date
24% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,153 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
26
inspections on record
645
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: 645 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 $21K in proposed MSHA penalties and $16K 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.
$21K
proposed penalties
$21K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$16K
outstanding
112 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-11-04.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.36 mg/m3 (97% compliant) across 35 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.
0.36
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.92
dust max (mg/m3)
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
35
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-11-12.
Noise
40%
over PEL
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-11-04.
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
2002 Q4 4,320 12 10 2777.8
2002 Q3 4,700 8 2 1702.1
2002 Q2 5,200 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 5,400 19 5 3518.5
2001 Q4 3,360 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,200 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 6,000 24 15 4000.0
2001 Q1 3,780 3 2 793.7
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q4 8,500 8 4 941.2
2000 Q3 8,160 29 17 3553.9
2000 Q2 9,000 5 2 555.6
2000 Q1 5,760 7 1 1215.3

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Mine 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.