Mining Incidents

No 8 Coal

Taurus Coal Company Inc · Underground
Controlled by James H Booth
Davella, Johnson County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518239

No 8 has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 9 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2000–2001
Latest incident
Apr 2001
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
89
citations
27
significant & substantial
$9,091
proposed penalties
$7,576
paid to date
83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,515 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
47
inspections on record
1,063
inspection hours
8.4
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.
89 citations across 1,063 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No 8 has $9K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 9 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.
$9K
proposed penalties
$8K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
88 assessments are final orders; 9 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-09-19.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No 8 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.88 mg/m3 (84% compliant) across 158 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.
0.88
dust avg (mg/m3)
6.47
dust max (mg/m3)
84%
within 1.5 mg/m3
158
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-11-15.
Silica (quartz)
5.8
silica avg (%)
10.6
silica max (%)
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-05-15.
Noise
9%
over PEL
11
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-09-17.
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
2003 Q1 0 0 0
2002 Q4 16,681 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 13,521 6 0 443.8
2002 Q2 19,014 6 0 315.6
2002 Q1 14,794 5 3 338.0
2001 Q4 20,521 16 6 779.7
2001 Q3 17,447 5 0 286.6
2001 Q2 23,832 3 0 125.9
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2001 Q1 19,003 10 5 526.2
2000 Q4 20,453 14 4 684.5
2000 Q3 16,040 23 9 1433.9
2000 Q2 21,210 1 0 47.1
2000 Q1 965 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2001 · 1 incident

April 26, 2001 KY · Coal section foreman, bullgang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, shift boss HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Taurus Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE RECEIVED LACERATION WHICH REQUIRED 3 SUTURES TO RIGHT HAND NEXT TO LITTLE FINGER WHEN HE WAS SETTING THE FEEDER. HE PICKED UP CRIB BLOCK, SWUNG AROUND AND HIT METAL ON SIDE OF FEEDER.

2000 · 1 incident

June 10, 2000 KY · Coal section foreman, bullgang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, shift boss HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Taurus Coal Company Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THE EE WAS LIFTING THE EXTENSION STRAIGHT ON THE ATRS SYSTEM WHEN THE EXTENSION FLIPPED AND RING ON ATRS CAUGHT FINGER, LACERATING IT.

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The full compliance file on No 8

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.