Mining Incidents

Sandlick No. 1 Coal

Tero-Therm Inc · Surface
Whitesburg, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1518481

Sandlick No. 1 has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $20K 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
Jun 2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2002
233
citations
54
significant & substantial
$26,950
proposed penalties
$6,542
paid to date
24% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $20,408 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2002
84
inspections on record
1,903
inspection hours
12.2
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.
233 citations across 1,903 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sandlick No. 1 has $27K in proposed MSHA penalties and $20K 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.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$20K
outstanding
229 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-01-15.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Sandlick No. 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.25 mg/m3 (99% compliant) across 146 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.
0.25
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.62
dust max (mg/m3)
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
146
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-02-04.
Silica (quartz)
17.6
silica avg (%)
37.2
silica max (%)
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-03-19.
Noise
7%
over PEL
67
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-05-22.
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
2017 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q2 50 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 100 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 150 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 400 3 1 7500.0
2016 Q2 0 1 0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 1,440 5 1 3472.2
Show 42 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2015 Q3 2,400 3 0 1250.0
2015 Q2 1,920 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 2,400 4 1 1666.7
2014 Q3 1,920 1 1 520.8
2014 Q2 1,280 11 0 8593.8
2014 Q1 750 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 2,800 1 0 357.1
2013 Q3 2,740 3 1 1094.9
2013 Q2 2,600 4 1 1538.5
2013 Q1 2,400 5 2 2083.3
2012 Q1 5,835 24 4 4113.1
2011 Q4 14,043 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 4,841 12 3 2478.8
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 728 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 3,449 3 0 869.8
2009 Q1 1,280 3 1 2343.8
2008 Q4 4,667 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 5,236 12 1 2291.8
2008 Q2 3,880 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 5,568 7 1 1257.2
2007 Q4 7,622 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 10,440 6 2 574.7
2007 Q2 10,243 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 8,052 5 1 621.0
2006 Q4 20,000 3 2 150.0
2006 Q2 7,474 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 6,637 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 5,904 15 4 2540.7
2005 Q2 5,622 1 1 177.9
2005 Q1 3,577 6 2 1677.4
2004 Q2 1,827 4 0 2189.4
2004 Q1 4,920 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 1,718 3 0 1746.2
2003 Q3 1,966 2 0 1017.3
2003 Q2 2,439 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,855 4 1 2156.3
2002 Q4 1,860 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,830 1 0 546.4
2002 Q2 1,280 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 350 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2003 · 1 incident

June 9, 2003 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Kipar, Inc. · Struck by falling object

WORKING ON LOADER, SOMETHING WENT INTO EYE.

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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.