Mining Incidents

Mine #1 Coal

Clark Mining Inc · Underground
Controlled by Joshua Clark
Jenkins, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518987

Mine #1 has $817K in proposed MSHA penalties and $781K outstanding across 6 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 2006
518
citations
198
significant & substantial
$817,261
proposed penalties
$35,920
paid to date
4% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $781,341 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
35
inspections on record
2,309
inspection hours
22.4
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.
518 citations across 2,309 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine #1 has $817K in proposed MSHA penalties and $781K outstanding across 6 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.
$817K
proposed penalties
$817K
current assessed
$36K
paid to date
$781K
outstanding
493 assessments are final orders; 6 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine #1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.48 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 144 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.
0.48
dust avg (mg/m3)
5.29
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
144
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-10-14.
Silica (quartz)
7.1
silica avg (%)
10.7
silica max (%)
18
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-10-26.
Noise
7%
over PEL
29
samples
Most recent sample: 2010-10-14.
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
2010 Q3 4,330 39 16 9006.9
2010 Q2 3,845 46 18 11963.6
2010 Q1 2,028 31 8 15286.0
2009 Q4 3,340 11 6 3293.4
2009 Q3 3,060 34 12 11111.1
2009 Q2 2,880 18 6 6250.0
2009 Q1 1,920 1 0 520.8
2008 Q4 2,400 6 1 2500.0
Show 3 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3 80 56 34 700000.0
2007 Q1 2,876 35 18 12169.7
2006 Q2 795 38 19 47798.7

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.