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Mine No. 8 Coal

Hubble Mining Co. LLC · Underground

Controlled by Harold E Akers; Jim D Akers

Eolia, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1519252

Mine No. 8 has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K outstanding across 25 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 2010

204

citations

69

significant & substantial

$60,945

proposed penalties

$46,044

paid to date

76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $14,901 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Inspection activity

MSHA inspections since 2009

22

inspections on record

2,047

inspection hours

10.0

citations per 100 inspection hours

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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.

204 citations across 2,047 inspection hours.

Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Mine No. 8 has $61K in proposed MSHA penalties and $8K outstanding across 25 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$61K

proposed penalties

$54K

current assessed

$46K

paid to date

$8K

outstanding

202 assessments are final orders; 25 contested dockets.

As of the most recent assessment on 2013-05-23.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Mine No. 8 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.37 mg/m3 (96% compliant) across 263 samples.

Health sampling

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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

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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.

0.37

dust avg (mg/m3)

3.53

dust max (mg/m3)

96%

within 1.5 mg/m3

263

samples

Most recent sample: 2013-05-16.

Silica (quartz)

5.0

silica avg (%)

12.3

silica max (%)

24

samples

Most recent sample: 2013-04-30.

Noise

7%

over PEL

59

samples

Most recent sample: 2013-03-15.

Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

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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
2013 Q2	12,054	1	1	83.0
2013 Q1	22,412	9	2	401.6
2012 Q4	24,631	22	2	893.2
2012 Q3	22,700	22	9	969.2
2012 Q2	14,097	13	6	922.2
2012 Q1	13,115	25	8	1906.2
2011 Q4	12,385	15	5	1211.1
2011 Q3	11,110	19	5	1710.2

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Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2011 Q2	11,897	21	7	1765.2
2011 Q1	11,022	9	4	816.5
2010 Q4	8,809	7	2	794.6
2010 Q3	9,027	17	8	1883.2
2010 Q2	6,974	24	10	3441.4
2009 Q3	0	0	0
2009 Q2	0	0	0
2009 Q1	0	0	0

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 No. 8

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.

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