Mining Incidents

Mine #3 Coal

Tackett Mining, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Jerry Tackett
Ransom, Pike County, KY  ·  Temporarily Idled
MSHA Mine ID: 1518973

Mine #3 has $172K in proposed MSHA penalties and $168K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
7
Years on record
2006–2019
Latest incident
Dec 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
666
citations
171
significant & substantial
$172,191
proposed penalties
$4,608
paid to date
3% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $167,583 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
73
inspections on record
4,879
inspection hours
13.7
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.
666 citations across 4,879 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine #3 has $172K in proposed MSHA penalties and $168K 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.
$172K
proposed penalties
$172K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$168K
outstanding
627 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-05-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine #3 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.43 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 272 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.
0.43
dust avg (mg/m3)
6.18
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
272
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-17.
Silica (quartz)
3.4
silica avg (%)
8.1
silica max (%)
13
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-11-21.
Noise
2%
over PEL
42
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-08-15.
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
2024 Q4 0 0 0
2024 Q3 0 0 0
2024 Q2 0 11 0
2022 Q2 1,045 61 13 58373.2
2022 Q1 920 3 0 3260.9
2021 Q4 980 2 0 2040.8
2019 Q4 10 66 7 6600000.0
2019 Q3 5,177 54 10 10430.8
Show 10 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2019 Q1 5,385 44 11 8170.8
2018 Q4 5,457 18 4 3298.5
2018 Q3 5,034 40 14 7946.0
2018 Q1 3,642 23 5 6315.2
2017 Q4 4,952 72 16 14539.6
2007 Q2 5,760 33 17 5729.2
2007 Q1 3,385 23 11 6794.7
2006 Q4 10 33 16 3300000.0
2006 Q3 4,046 16 6 3954.5
2006 Q2 1,652 10 5 6053.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

7 on file

2019 · 4 incidents

December 6, 2019 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck against stationary object

Employee had pulled roof bolter up in #9 entry on 001-1 section to prepare to start bolting place and was bending bolts to be installed first when hand slipped off roof bolt hitting hand on ground and roof bolter.

December 5, 2019 KY · Coal driller operator HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck by flying object

Had a bit break off in end of coal drill auger, myself and IE were beating old bit with hammer. Piece of bit broke off hitting IE in the eye, we both were wearing safety glasses but the piece that hit EE busted EE's glasses.

October 11, 2019 KY · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator POWERED HAULAGE
Lester And Sons Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

EE stated EE had a leak on one of the bucket jacks, raised head up over top of scoop while scoop still moving to see if EE could see the leak and caught head between scoop and mine roof.

October 1, 2019 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Lester And Sons Inc · Struck by falling object

EE was loading coal out of face of #3 heading. When small piece of rock fell hitting EE on knee, EE never told. Worked rest of shift, then went to E.R. that night. Said bruised knee cap, nothing broke.

2018 · 1 incident

January 23, 2018 KY · Coal scoop tram operator, load/haul/dump operator POWERED HAULAGE
Little Tackett Mining, L.L.C. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Victim was injured when a scoop rolled forward resulting in victims left leg receiving trauma and fractured fibula, prior to being pulled from under the scoop.

2006 · 2 incidents

November 22, 2006 KY · Coal INUNDATION
Right Fork Energy Inc · Accident type, without injuries

Cutting machine was cutting #1 entry when water started coming in. We evacuated the men & made provisions to pump water. After the water had cleared, it was determined we had cut into a cone hole drilled from above.

October 26, 2006 KY · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
Right Fork Energy Inc · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Scoop operator was dumping coal onto section tailpiece. He accidentally knocked the guard off of the tailpiece roller & caused the section belt to gob off. He helped the tailpiece man clean it up. According to the tailpiece man, after cleaning, the belt was turned on before the guard was put back on. Emp. tripped & put hand in roller.

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The full compliance file on Mine #3

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.