Mining Incidents

NO. 1 Coal

COALTON MINING INC. · Surface
Controlled by Tommy Jayne
Grethel, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519726

NO. 1 has $56K in proposed MSHA penalties and $24K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2017–2020
Latest incident
May 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2014
319
citations
55
significant & substantial
$55,833
proposed penalties
$32,234
paid to date
58% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $23,599 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
93
inspections on record
6,426
inspection hours
5.0
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.
319 citations across 6,426 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

NO. 1 has $56K in proposed MSHA penalties and $24K outstanding across 2 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.
$56K
proposed penalties
$56K
current assessed
$32K
paid to date
$24K
outstanding
306 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-01-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at NO. 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.47 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 751 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)
4.59
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
751
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-09-21.
Silica (quartz)
3.6
silica avg (%)
6.8
silica max (%)
30
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-07-26.
Noise
0%
over PEL
121
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-07-15.
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
2022 Q3 7,279 13 4 1786.0
2022 Q2 7,548 11 4 1457.3
2022 Q1 8,247 4 0 485.0
2021 Q4 6,827 7 1 1025.3
2021 Q3 6,061 8 2 1319.9
2021 Q2 7,354 10 4 1359.8
2021 Q1 7,343 9 4 1225.7
2020 Q4 3,283 3 1 913.8
Show 28 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q3 7,130 10 3 1402.5
2020 Q2 9,133 13 2 1423.4
2020 Q1 9,489 8 0 843.1
2019 Q4 8,225 11 0 1337.4
2019 Q3 7,912 12 2 1516.7
2019 Q2 8,098 8 2 987.9
2019 Q1 8,319 8 0 961.7
2018 Q4 10,641 4 1 375.9
2018 Q3 9,971 8 3 802.3
2018 Q2 9,665 12 1 1241.6
2018 Q1 9,935 11 1 1107.2
2017 Q4 9,370 11 1 1174.0
2017 Q3 9,424 11 0 1167.2
2017 Q2 9,581 17 2 1774.3
2017 Q1 8,680 11 1 1267.3
2016 Q4 9,240 11 4 1190.5
2016 Q3 9,545 13 2 1362.0
2016 Q2 3,008 7 1 2327.1
2016 Q1 9,477 11 2 1160.7
2015 Q4 11,680 15 0 1284.2
2015 Q3 8,487 6 1 707.0
2015 Q2 8,440 12 2 1421.8
2015 Q1 2,300 13 3 5652.2
2014 Q4 4,000 9 1 2250.0
2014 Q3 0 0 0
2014 Q2 0 0 0
2014 Q1 0 0 0
2013 Q4 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2020 · 1 incident

May 21, 2020 KY · Coal scoop car/scooptram operator, load/haul/dump (lhd) operator, teletram operator POWERED HAULAGE
COALTON MINING INC. · Struck by powered moving object

Miner was crawling near inby corner of tailpiece, when scoop approached to dump, striking the miner on the right lower leg, resulting in compression fractures to right tibia and fibula.

2018 · 1 incident

September 6, 2018 KY · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
MRM Mining, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Pushing bolt up with the bolter, ee was holding the bolt and it slipped out and the plate caught ee hand and cut the palm of ee left hand.

2017 · 1 incident

July 21, 2017 KY · Coal draftsman, surveyor/transit work supervisor POWERED HAULAGE
MRM Mining, Inc. · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Batteries ran down (no power) on the mantrip vehicle used to transport 2 people (spad crew) to the surface. One of the occupants head/cap got wedged between the mine roof (30' coal hgt.) & the vehicle frame & when machine movement occurred slightly, the occupant received injuries. Diagnosed as concussion and neck muscle strain.

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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.