Mining Incidents

Pratt No. 1 Mine Coal

Graysville, Jefferson County, AL  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0103101

Pratt No. 1 Mine has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
5
Years on record
2000–2020
Latest incident
Jan 2020
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
101
citations
34
significant & substantial
$12,207
proposed penalties
$9,623
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $2,584 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
69
inspections on record
886
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: 886 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Pratt No. 1 Mine has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 1 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.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
100 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-02-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Pratt No. 1 Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.11 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 133 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.
0.11
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.06
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
133
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-10.
Noise
5%
over PEL
60
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-05-03.
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
2023 Q2 1,813 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 7,858 1 1 127.3
2022 Q4 6,975 1 0 143.4
2022 Q3 5,853 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 6,191 1 0 161.5
2022 Q1 6,261 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 6,092 2 1 328.3
2021 Q3 5,987 5 0 835.1
Show 41 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q2 7,560 1 1 132.3
2021 Q1 6,150 3 0 487.8
2020 Q4 8,008 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 5,480 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 4,561 1 0 219.3
2020 Q1 9,441 7 2 741.4
2019 Q4 6,975 7 7 1003.6
2019 Q3 7,873 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 2,063 1 1 484.7
2019 Q1 2,780 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 2,323 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 3,099 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 2,942 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 4,343 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 4,248 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 4,373 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 3,567 2 1 560.7
2017 Q1 7,314 2 0 273.4
2016 Q4 5,339 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 4,223 3 1 710.4
2016 Q2 3,975 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 170 4 0 23529.4
2015 Q4 2,982 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,426 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 4,459 2 0 448.5
2015 Q1 8,311 4 0 481.3
2014 Q4 6,666 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 3,804 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 480 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 482 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 6,176 7 4 1133.4
2003 Q1 11,115 7 3 629.8
2002 Q4 7,865 13 5 1652.9
2002 Q3 7,865 23 7 2924.3
2002 Q2 1,490 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,343 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 7,437 1 0 134.5
2000 Q2 7,327 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 6,482 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

5 on file

2020 · 1 incident

January 21, 2020 AL · Coal FIRE
Cane Creek, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

A fire was discovered at the North Pratt Bathhouse area in a location of old offices that were locked off to the miners.

2016 · 1 incident

June 28, 2016 AL · Coal warehouseman, bagger, palletizer/stacker, store keeper, packager, fabricator, cleaning plant operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Cane Creek, LLC · Fall from scaffolds, walkways, platforms

Miner was on the catwalk at the spirals, which is on the second floor of the plant. EE was checking each spiral, when EE made it to the last one, EE stepped off the end of the catwalk and caught self with hand, cutting the skin between EE's thumb and finger. The height of the fall was approximately 18-24 inches.

2015 · 1 incident

January 10, 2015 AL · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS
North Pratt Mining, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Hanging a chute to a rotary breaker and finger got mashed between chute and breaker.

2003 · 1 incident

September 8, 2003 AL · Coal electrician, lineman POWERED HAULAGE
A2M, LLC · Struck by rolling or sliding object

EMPLOYEE STEPPED UNDER THE FORKS OF THE FORKLIFT AS THEY WERE BEING LOWERED TO REATTACH THE ROPE USED TO PULL WIRE.

2000 · 1 incident

May 15, 2000 AL · Coal truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Bankhead-Gardner Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE APPARENTLY FELL OFF HYDROSEEDER WHILE FILLING TANK WITH WATER; HE WAS GIVEN FIRST AID BY CO-WORKERS AND THEN TRANSPORTED TO CARRAWAY MEDICAL CENTER. HE HAD A HEAD INJURY & CRACKED VERTEBRAE.

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The full compliance file on Pratt No. 1 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.