Mining Incidents

No. 1 Coal

Controlled by Robert L Blanton
Martha, Lawrence County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518649

No. 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $490 outstanding across 0 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 2003
25
citations
12
significant & substantial
$2,270
proposed penalties
$1,780
paid to date
78% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $490 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
22
inspections on record
290
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 290 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No. 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $490 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$490
outstanding
25 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2005-08-22.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No. 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.16 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 30 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.
0.16
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.86
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
30
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-08-22.
Noise
12%
over PEL
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-03-08.
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
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 4,497 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 13,216 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 10,854 2 1 184.3
2005 Q2 12,545 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 11,996 5 2 416.8
Show 6 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q4 10,890 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 14,624 5 4 341.9
2004 Q2 14,390 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 8,564 10 5 1167.7
2003 Q4 6,439 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,441 3 0 1229.0

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 No. 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.