Mining Incidents

SHM-47 Coal

Harlan, Harlan County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519371

SHM-47 has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
3
Years on record
2009–2017
Latest incident
Nov 2017
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2009
58
citations
11
significant & substantial
$16,694
proposed penalties
$11,969
paid to date
72% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $4,725 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2009
36
inspections on record
1,190
inspection hours
4.9
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.
58 citations across 1,190 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

SHM-47 has $17K in proposed MSHA penalties and $3K outstanding across 3 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
$15K
current assessed
$12K
paid to date
$3K
outstanding
54 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2022-06-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at SHM-47 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.15 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.
0.15
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.03
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
62
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-07-06.
Noise
2%
over PEL
56
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-07-06.
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
2022 Q3 1,910 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 4,044 5 0 1236.4
2022 Q1 1,885 4 0 2122.0
2021 Q4 4,043 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 0 0 0
2021 Q1 2,176 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 4,264 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 3,336 0 0 0.0
Show 36 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2020 Q2 2,458 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 2,322 5 0 2153.3
2019 Q4 2,868 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 0 1 0
2019 Q2 0 0 0
2019 Q1 2,225 3 2 1348.3
2018 Q4 9,147 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 7,710 5 0 648.5
2018 Q2 6,326 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 930 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 1,913 3 1 1568.2
2017 Q3 3,650 3 1 821.9
2017 Q2 4,460 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 4,048 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 9,406 1 1 106.3
2015 Q1 7,310 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 8,651 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 9,404 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 10,155 9 2 886.3
2014 Q1 6,561 1 0 152.4
2013 Q4 5,924 1 1 168.8
2013 Q3 5,506 4 1 726.5
2013 Q2 0 0 0
2013 Q1 4,111 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 9,858 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 9,229 2 0 216.7
2012 Q2 7,432 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 6,269 3 0 478.5
2011 Q4 3,920 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 4,166 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 8,864 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 6,915 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 7,905 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 8,094 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 9,767 7 2 716.7
2009 Q1 6,880 1 0 145.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

3 on file

2017 · 1 incident

November 8, 2017 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
MEGA HIGHWALL MINING LLC · Caught in, under or between (Not Elsewhere Classified)

MINER'S GLOVE BECAME ENTANGLED IN DOOR LATCH AS MINER EXITED CAB, AND AS A RESULT, THE GLOVE WAS PULLED OFF MINER'S HAND, CATCHING THE TIP OF FINGER, CAUSING A FRACTURE OF THE TIP OF THE FINGER BONE.

2014 · 1 incident

November 10, 2014 KY · Coal forklift operator POWERED HAULAGE
PIA Company, Inc. · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Standing beside Mack Truck, the employee failed to see outrigger on truck coming down. His right foot/toe was caught under outrigger

2009 · 1 incident

August 6, 2009 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman MACHINERY
Major Elkhorn Mining LLC · Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects

Employee was visually inspecting the SHM and came in contact with the reel assembly on the machine. Injury to head and laceration to right ear.

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The full compliance file on SHM-47

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.