Mining Incidents

Seagraves Creek H-1 Coal

4th Gen Fuels LLC. · Surface
Evarts, Harlan County, KY  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 1519928

Seagraves Creek H-1 has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2024
Latest incident
Dec 2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2022
64
citations
13
significant & substantial
$12,410
proposed penalties
$11,092
paid to date
89% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,318 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2022
19
inspections on record
1,066
inspection hours
6.0
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.
64 citations across 1,066 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Seagraves Creek H-1 has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $1K outstanding across 2 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
$11K
paid to date
$1K
outstanding
61 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-04-29.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Seagraves Creek H-1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 80 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.41
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
80
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-03-02.
Silica (quartz)
7.1
silica avg (%)
14.5
silica max (%)
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-03-12.
Noise
3%
over PEL
36
samples
Most recent sample: 2026-03-02.
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
2025 Q4 13,501 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 13,289 19 1 1429.8
2025 Q2 14,010 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 15,343 10 2 651.8
2024 Q4 14,363 1 1 69.6
2024 Q3 13,358 1 1 74.9
2024 Q2 13,410 7 1 522.0
2024 Q1 12,202 0 0 0.0
Show 5 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q4 10,950 8 3 730.6
2023 Q3 8,171 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 5,518 5 1 906.1
2023 Q1 4,164 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 2,711 5 1 1844.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2024 · 1 incident

December 11, 2024 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
4th Gen Fuels LLC. · Fall from machine

Operator was climbing up the ladder on 777B rock truck, stopped on the bumper, fell to the ground landing on left side. Operator complained of pain in left shoulder, left hip, and lower back. Was taken to a hospital for X-Ray & CT scan, both came back ok with no breaks or fractures.

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The full compliance file on Seagraves Creek H-1

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.