Mining Incidents

S & H Mine #12 Coal

S & H Mining, Inc. · Underground
Briceville, Anderson County, TN  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4003189

S & H Mine #12 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
12
Years on record
2003–2004
Latest incident
Apr 2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
14
citations
8
significant & substantial
$1,360
proposed penalties
$1,360
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
26
inspections on record
592
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: 592 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

S & H Mine #12 has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
12 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-03-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at S & H Mine #12 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.45 mg/m3 (94% compliant) across 96 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.
0.45
dust avg (mg/m3)
3.67
dust max (mg/m3)
94%
within 1.5 mg/m3
96
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-03-16.
Silica (quartz)
3.2
silica avg (%)
3.2
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-03-05.
Noise
20%
over PEL
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2004-01-07.
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 Q2 4,685 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 5,521 3 2 543.4
2003 Q4 5,059 6 3 1186.0
2003 Q3 5,571 1 1 179.5
2003 Q2 5,723 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 5,769 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 4,968 4 2 805.2
2002 Q3 3,051 0 0 0.0
Show 1 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2002 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

12 on file

2004 · 6 incidents

April 20, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND ABOUT 7:00 AM AT #24 X CUT ON FIRST LEFT IN #1 ENTRY THE RETURN. IT IS ABOUT 20' WIDE, 9' TO 10' HIGH, & ABOUT 45' LONG.

April 20, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND ON PRE-SHIFT AT #29 XCUT IN THE #4 ENTRY. ON FIRST LEFT IT IS ABOUT 10' HIGH 20' WIDE & 45 LONG.

April 19, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

ROOF FALL WAS FOUND ABOUT 6:15 AM AT #19 X-CUT ON FIRST LEFT MAIN. IT FELL ACROSS #1 ENTRY, #2 ENTRY, OVER TO #3 ENTRY. IT IS ABOUT 6' TO 9' HIGH & 20' WIDE & ABOUT 110' LONG.

April 19, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A roof fall was found about 6:30 am at #27 xcut on first left in the return #1 entry. It is about 9-10' high 20' wide and about 40' long.

March 9, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND AT #25 XCUT ON FIRST LEFT MAIN IN THE #5 ENTRY ABOUT 7-8' HIGH AND 65" LONG. IT WAS ABOUT 7:00 AM.

March 9, 2004 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A ROOF FALL WAS FOUND AT #18 XCUT FIRST MAIN ABOUT 20' LONG & 6' HIGH. IT WAS FOUND WHEN I GOT TO #1 TAIL PIECE AT ABOUT 6:30 AM.

2003 · 6 incidents

December 11, 2003 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

A ROCK FALL WAS FOUND ON EXAM ON MAKING THE RETURN ABOUT 20' BY 75' BY 6' HIGH AT 15 XCUT 15 XCUT AND 14 XCUT. IT WAS FOUND ABOUT 7:30 AM.

July 14, 2003 TN · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
S & H Mining, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

GETTING OFF BELT - HIT ROLLER - BRUISED RIGHT LEG.

April 18, 2003 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

ROOF FALL IS AT #17 X CUT IN #3 ENTRY ON THE TAIL PIECE AND ON THE FEEDER IT IS 20' WIDE 6 TO 7 'HIGH AND ABOUT 30 TO 35' LONG

April 7, 2003 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

ROOF FALL WAS IN #15 X-CUT IN THE #3 ENTRY ON THE #1 BELT LIME. ABOUT 6'THICK & ABOUT 35-40'LONG ALSO, SAME TYPE FALL IN #4 ENTRY AT X-CUT #17.

February 19, 2003 TN · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
S & H Mining, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

WATER CUTTING THROUGH TOP CAUSING ROCK TO FALL AT X-22 #4 ENTRY @ INTERSECTION. 30' LONG 20' WIDE, 9' HIGH. UNINTENTIONAL ROCK FALL.

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The full compliance file on S & H Mine #12

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.