Mining Incidents

No 4 Mine Coal

Mud Creek, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518624

No 4 Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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
2003
Latest incident
Oct 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2003
50
citations
29
significant & substantial
$5,452
proposed penalties
$1,792
paid to date
33% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,660 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2003
19
inspections on record
295
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: 295 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 4 Mine has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
48 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 4 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.27 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 15 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.
0.27
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.69
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-09-21.
Noise
13%
over PEL
16
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-09-20.
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
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 15 7
2003 Q4 4,256 1 1 235.0
2003 Q3 1,315 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 5,911 14 7 2368.5
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

October 14, 2003 KY · Coal assayer, geologist, metallurgist, engineer, engineer management

PICK-UP TRUCK ROLLED OVER EMBANKMENT AFTER SLIPPING DOWN MUDDY OFF-SITE ROAD ONTO PERMITTED AREA.

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The full compliance file on No 4 Mine

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.