Mining Incidents

Mine # 1 Coal

Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Underground
Cumberland, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519430

Mine # 1 has $49K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 25 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
2010–2012
Latest incident
Jun 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2010
181
citations
34
significant & substantial
$48,546
proposed penalties
$38,754
paid to date
80% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $9,792 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
29
inspections on record
1,700
inspection hours
10.6
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.
181 citations across 1,700 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine # 1 has $49K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 25 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.
$49K
proposed penalties
$39K
current assessed
$39K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
174 assessments are final orders; 25 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-06-01.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine # 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.47 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 168 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.
0.47
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.03
dust max (mg/m3)
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
168
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-05-31.
Silica (quartz)
5.7
silica avg (%)
6.7
silica max (%)
6
samples
Most recent sample: 2011-10-26.
Noise
6%
over PEL
36
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-05-10.
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 Q2 12,082 35 9 2896.9
2012 Q1 16,211 27 5 1665.5
2011 Q4 16,786 14 4 834.0
2011 Q3 15,538 18 2 1158.5
2011 Q2 14,681 17 1 1158.0
2011 Q1 15,276 6 0 392.8
2010 Q4 13,396 13 2 970.4
2010 Q3 14,100 21 4 1489.4
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q2 12,183 28 7 2298.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2012 · 2 incidents

June 1, 2012 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Roof fall #4 intersection 160' inby spad#990 Ribs were sloughing bad were prutting up 8' rope bolts pizza pans.

March 19, 2012 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Struck by falling object

EE was roof bolting on 3/19/2012. A piece of rib fell and hit his left ankle. He did not want an ambulance and just went home. The next day on 3/20/2012 at 3:30PM he went to a clinic and was diagnosed with a broken ankle. Tough guy.

2011 · 1 incident

2010 · 1 incident

July 21, 2010 KY · Coal transit man, surveyor/transit worker HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Yellow Rose Coal, LLC · Struck by flying object

Employee was attempting to remove stuck bolt with a hammer. A piece of steel from the hammer chipped off and entered the employee's left thumb joint.

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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.