Mining Incidents

Shale Pit: 5 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

Shale Pit · Surface
Controlled by Lynn Walls
Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519285

Shale Pit has $567 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
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2012
5
citations
0
significant & substantial
$567
proposed penalties
$567
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2008
20
inspections on record
137
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: 137 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Shale Pit has $567 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.
$567
proposed penalties
$567
current assessed
$567
paid to date
$0
outstanding
5 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2019-11-21.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
0.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
0.0%
reasonably likely or greater
20.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 20.0% low, 80.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
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.

Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.

Last sampled: 2012-01-18, 14 years ago
1
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
  • Respirable dust, <.1mg1
Show the individual readings (1)
Date Contaminant Concentration Limit Conc / limit Occupation
2012-01-18 Respirable dust, <.1mg 0 Supervisor, Co. Official
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Ownership history
  1. Shale Pit 2008 to 2017
  2. Shale Pit 2017 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
2024 3
2023 3
2022 3
2021 3
2020 3
2019 3
2018 3
2017 3
2016 3
2015 3
2014 3
2013 5
2012 5
2011 2
2010 4
2009 3
2008 3
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.

Shale Pit sits in Bullitt County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Bullitt County, Kentucky · Population 83,209
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$77,640
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
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
2024 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 9 0 0 0.0
2023 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 6 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
Show 56 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2022 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 9 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 9 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 9 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 9 0 0 0.0
2020 Q2 6 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2019 Q4 9 1 0 111111.1
2019 Q3 6 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 9 0 0 0.0
2019 Q1 6 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 6 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 12 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 9 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 6 1 0 166666.7
2017 Q4 9 0 0 0.0
2017 Q3 12 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 6 0 0 0.0
2017 Q1 15 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 12 2 0 166666.7
2016 Q2 3 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 2 0 0 0.0
2015 Q4 2 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 6 0 0 0.0
2015 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 15 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 4 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 3 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 18 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 30 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 60 0 0 0.0
2013 Q1 24 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 90 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 45 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 15 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 32 1 0 31250.0
2011 Q4 19 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 19 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 19 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 27 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 69 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 21 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 50 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 28 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 9 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 12 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 17 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.