Mining Incidents

No 1 Cave Branch Coal

Controlled by Hugh Holbrook
Brinkley, Knott County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518151

No 1 Cave Branch has $255 in proposed MSHA penalties and $255 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
Feb 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
4
citations
2
significant & substantial
$255
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $255 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
19
inspections on record
127
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: 127 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 Cave Branch has $255 in proposed MSHA penalties and $255 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.
$255
proposed penalties
$255
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$255
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-02-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 1 Cave Branch shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.94 mg/m3 (82% compliant) across 17 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.
0.94
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.97
dust max (mg/m3)
82%
within 1.5 mg/m3
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2000-05-19.
Noise
0%
over PEL
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2000-03-16.
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
2002 Q4 0 0 0
2002 Q3 0 0 0
2002 Q2 0 0 0
2002 Q1 40 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 200 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 765 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,577 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 0 0 0
Show 4 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2000 Q4 0 0 0
2000 Q3 0 0 0
2000 Q2 635 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 5,845 4 2 684.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2000 · 1 incident

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The full compliance file on No 1 Cave Branch

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.