Mining Incidents

No. 9 Coal

Cliffco Enterprise, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by Cliff Bartley
Virgie, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518546

No. 9 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $736 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
May 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
87
citations
34
significant & substantial
$7,391
proposed penalties
$6,655
paid to date
90% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $736 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
41
inspections on record
1,262
inspection hours
6.9
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.
87 citations across 1,262 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

No. 9 has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $736 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
$7K
paid to date
$736
outstanding
85 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-01-17.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at No. 9 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.55 mg/m3 (98% compliant) across 190 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.
0.55
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.89
dust max (mg/m3)
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
190
samples
Most recent sample: 2006-02-09.
Silica (quartz)
4.1
silica avg (%)
7.1
silica max (%)
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-12-30.
Noise
0%
over PEL
24
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-11-09.
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
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 3,905 7 4 1792.6
2005 Q4 6,227 11 5 1766.5
2005 Q3 6,189 11 3 1777.3
2005 Q2 1,292 6 0 4644.0
2005 Q1 0 1 1
2004 Q4 12,343 1 0 81.0
2004 Q3 11,528 6 2 520.5
Show 9 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q2 13,036 2 0 153.4
2004 Q1 13,131 4 1 304.6
2003 Q4 11,904 9 5 756.0
2003 Q3 11,773 7 6 594.6
2003 Q2 13,331 8 5 600.1
2003 Q1 13,906 1 1 71.9
2002 Q4 12,728 9 1 707.1
2002 Q3 6,445 4 0 620.6
2002 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

May 6, 2003 KY · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Ember Contracting, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS HELPING TO CHANGE A BOOM SWING JACK ON A CUTTER. HE PICKED UP THE SLEEVE TO THE JACK AND TURNED AROUND TO LAY IT DOWN AND STATED THAT HE FELT PAIN IN HIS LOWER BACK.

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The full compliance file on No. 9

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.