Mining Incidents

Mine No 17 Coal

Premium Coal · Underground
Controlled by James C Justice III
Devonia, Anderson County, TN  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4003279

Mine No 17 has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $518 outstanding across 4 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
10
Years on record
2006–2009
Latest incident
Mar 2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
67
citations
24
significant & substantial
$8,925
proposed penalties
$8,001
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $924 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
29
inspections on record
1,120
inspection hours
6.0
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.
67 citations across 1,120 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No 17 has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $518 outstanding across 4 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$9K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$518
outstanding
66 assessments are final orders; 4 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-12-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No 17 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.40 mg/m3 (95% compliant) across 91 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.
0.40
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.81
dust max (mg/m3)
95%
within 1.5 mg/m3
91
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-03-13.
Silica (quartz)
21.9
silica avg (%)
36.0
silica max (%)
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-02-17.
Noise
0%
over PEL
25
samples
Most recent sample: 2009-02-05.
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
2009 Q2 11,462 1 0 87.2
2009 Q1 27,466 9 2 327.7
2008 Q4 21,214 25 8 1178.5
2008 Q3 21,642 18 6 831.7
2008 Q2 9,893 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 0 0 0
2007 Q4 0 0 0
2007 Q3 0 0 0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q2 0 0 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 9,684 2 0 206.5
2006 Q3 3,502 5 5 1427.8
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

10 on file

2009 · 7 incidents

March 31, 2009 TN · Coal discontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operator POWERED HAULAGE
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

The employee was tramming scoop from outside to face. Got his light cord hung in roof bolt or plate jerking head around.

March 25, 2009 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Got left hand between left index finger and thumb between wrench and drill steel.

January 23, 2009 TN · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler POWERED HAULAGE
National Coal Corporation · Struck by powered moving object

Hanging curtain up, got bumped by shuttle car.

2008 · 2 incidents

December 9, 2008 TN · Coal continuous miner helper, coal mole helper, bridgeman MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

The operator was lowering the head of the miner from the operator side as the employee was looking underneath the machine with his left arm lying on the miner pan, catching arm between the pan and head on the off side of miner, breaking employee's arm.

August 19, 2008 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Mashed right wrist and fingers drilling hole to install roof bolt.

2006 · 1 incident

October 30, 2006 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
National Coal Corporation · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was installing roof bolts when his glove became caught on the bolt while it was rotating & it twisted his right hand.

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The full compliance file on Mine No 17

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.