Mining Incidents

Sandlick Loadout Coal

ICG East Kentucky LLC · Facility
Controlled by Arch Resources Inc
Sidney, Pike County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1516290

Sandlick Loadout has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
4
Years on record
1994–2008
Latest incident
Feb 2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
122
citations
39
significant & substantial
$17,424
proposed penalties
$13,324
paid to date
76% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,100 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
63
inspections on record
1,132
inspection hours
10.8
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.
122 citations across 1,132 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sandlick Loadout has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K 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.
$17K
proposed penalties
$17K
current assessed
$13K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
118 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2012-03-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Sandlick Loadout shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.19 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 70 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.
0.19
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.75
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
70
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-04-24.
Noise
0%
over PEL
43
samples
Most recent sample: 2012-03-22.
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
2012 Q4 540 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 464 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 2,605 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 4,440 2 0 450.5
2011 Q4 5,509 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 5,830 3 0 514.6
2011 Q2 6,349 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 7,163 1 0 139.6
Show 44 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2010 Q4 6,328 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 6,855 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 6,708 9 2 1341.7
2010 Q1 6,731 7 4 1040.0
2009 Q4 7,444 21 7 2821.1
2009 Q3 6,846 7 2 1022.5
2009 Q2 8,636 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 8,666 2 0 230.8
2008 Q4 6,430 7 1 1088.6
2008 Q3 5,972 1 0 167.4
2008 Q2 5,695 6 1 1053.6
2008 Q1 6,222 5 3 803.6
2007 Q4 3,676 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 608 5 1 8223.7
2007 Q2 0 6 0
2007 Q1 0 0 0
2006 Q4 0 0 0
2006 Q3 0 0 0
2006 Q2 0 0 0
2006 Q1 0 0 0
2005 Q4 0 0 0
2005 Q3 0 0 0
2005 Q2 0 0 0
2005 Q1 0 0 0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2004 Q1 0 0 0
2003 Q4 0 0 0
2003 Q3 25 1 0 40000.0
2003 Q2 397 1 0 2518.9
2003 Q1 1,659 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 1,929 12 5 6220.8
2002 Q3 2,492 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,893 4 1 2113.0
2002 Q1 430 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 1,061 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,532 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 3,763 3 2 797.2
2001 Q1 4,854 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 4,464 6 4 1344.1
2000 Q3 1,544 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,225 7 3 3146.1
2000 Q1 3,032 6 3 1978.9
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

4 on file

2008 · 1 incident

February 7, 2008 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
ICG East Kentucky LLC · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was trying to remove a large sandstone rock from feeder belt. While lifting he felt a sharp pain in left side of groin. He went to Dr. on 2-8-08 and did not miss any work until 2-21-08 at which time he had surgery to repair a rupture. At this time employee has not returned to work.

1998 · 1 incident

December 8, 1998 KY · Coal FIRE
Branham & Baker Coal Company Inc · Accident type, without injuries

AN UNPLANNED MINE FIRE OCCURRED. VISIBLE FLAMES WERE EXTINGUISHED WITHIN 30 MINUTES. FIRE WAS DUE TO SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION OF COAL. FIRE CONTINUES TO SMOLDER AND WHEN FLAMES ARE OBSERVED, THE Y ARE EXTINGUISHED IMMEDIATELY. THE STOCKPILE ISBEING REDUCED TO INCLUDE HOT COALS.

1996 · 1 incident

December 26, 1996 KY · Coal prep plant foreman, supervisor, mill plant supervisor, kiln supervisor ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES
Addington Inc · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL REPORTED TO WORK ON 12-26-96HE INFORMED HIS SUPERVISOR THAT HIS BACK WAS HURTING. HE DID NOT KNOW OF A SPECIFIC EVENT WHICH CAUSED THE PAIN. HE HAS HAD A HISTORY OF BACK PO RBLEMS. ON 12-30-96 A DR. INDICATED THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAD DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE.

1994 · 1 incident

January 19, 1994 KY · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Addington Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface

EMPLOYEE WAS REMOVING ICE & SNOW FROM THE SCALES WITH A SHOVE. WHILE DOING THIS, THE EMPLOYEE SLIPPED & TWISTED HIS BACK IN THE PROCESS.

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The full compliance file on Sandlick Loadout

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.