SHM-70 has $5K 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
6
Years on record
2021–2025
Latest incident
Jun 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
23
citations
4
significant & substantial
$4,914
proposed penalties
$4,914
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2019
30
inspections on record
1,121
inspection hours
2.1
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.
23 citations across 1,121 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
SHM-70 has $5K 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
23 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-03-23.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at SHM-70 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.18 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 64 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.
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
The injured person was traveling down the haul road belonging to River Ridge P-1, 15-19895, to go home when the brakes failed and they jumped out of the vehicle causing injury to their right shoulder and laceration to their head.
Highwall miner was turning, something in the back right track popped and a piece of shrap flew approx 40ft striking EE in the right jaw below the mouth. there was an approx 3cm laceration with a small piece of shrap metal embedded that had to be removed at Pikeville PMC.
While doing repair work on miner push beams, Miner was welding the nuts holding pedestal on the push beam. When work was complete the miner slipped while stepping off, falling aprox 36" to the pit floor. while falling they reached out to catch themselves and landed on their wrist, breaking it in the process. Miner was wearing PPE which helped during the fall.
June 8, 2022KY · Coallaborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitmanMACHINERY
The employee was using a hand held drill with an auger bit to remove debris from a connector pin hole on a highwall mining beam. The drill bit caught causing the drill to spin around and hit EE's right hand.
2021 · 1 incident
December 20, 2021KY · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techHANDLING OF MATERIALS
Replacing the bottom edge plate on a push beam. After cutting the plate loose it slipped and pinned EE's left hand little finger between the plate and the frame of the push beam causing the laceration to the finger.
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