Mining Incidents

No 2 Coal

Three Bells LLC · Underground
Controlled by Ronald L Gray
Barbourville, Knox County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1519110

No 2 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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
2008
Latest incident
May 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
59
citations
16
significant & substantial
$6,599
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,599 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
10
inspections on record
533
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: 533 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 2 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
58 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-10-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 2 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.49 mg/m3 (91% compliant) across 58 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.
0.49
dust avg (mg/m3)
2.65
dust max (mg/m3)
91%
within 1.5 mg/m3
58
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-09-23.
Noise
0%
over PEL
11
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-09-11.
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
2008 Q4 240 1 0 4166.7
2008 Q3 2,397 8 0 3337.5
2008 Q2 3,671 21 9 5720.5
2008 Q1 3,448 14 4 4060.3
2007 Q4 2,627 6 2 2284.0
2007 Q3 668 9 1 13473.1
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

May 30, 2008 KY · Coal continuous miner operator, coal mole operator MACHINERY
Three Bells LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Miner operator was injured when the miner bridge was accidentally dropped on his back as he was crawling under the bridge.

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The full compliance file on No 2

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.