Mining Incidents

Salyers Branch H4 Coal

Consol of Kentucky, Inc. · Underground
Controlled by CONSOL Energy Inc
Hueysville, Floyd County, KY  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 1518591

Salyers Branch H4 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $72 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
Dec 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
106
citations
43
significant & substantial
$15,604
proposed penalties
$15,532
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $72 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
28
inspections on record
692
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: 692 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Salyers Branch H4 has $16K in proposed MSHA penalties and $72 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.
$16K
proposed penalties
$16K
current assessed
$16K
paid to date
$72
outstanding
102 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-10-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Salyers Branch H4 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.35 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 62 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.
0.35
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.43
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
62
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-12-13.
Silica (quartz)
6.6
silica avg (%)
11.1
silica max (%)
3
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-12-01.
Noise
30%
over PEL
10
samples
Most recent sample: 2003-12-29.
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 0 0 0
2004 Q1 998 11 2 11022.0
2003 Q4 19,182 35 8 1824.6
2003 Q3 13,389 35 21 2614.1
2003 Q2 12,214 17 8 1391.8
2003 Q1 5,528 6 4 1085.4
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

December 14, 2003 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Consol of Kentucky, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

AN UNINTENTIONAL ROOF FALL WAS DISCOVERED IN THE #5 ENTRY 1 BRK IN BY SPAD #320 SIZE OF FALL WASESTIMATED TO BE 6' H BY 25' L BY 25' W (INTERSECTION). AREA HAD BEEN SUPPORTED WITH 6' FULLY GROUTED RESIN BOLTS. NO INJURIES, VENTILATION WAS NOT INTERRUPTED. FALL WILL NOT BE CLEANED UP.

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The full compliance file on Salyers Branch H4

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.