Mining Incidents

Steele Hollow Mine Coal

ACPKY1, LLC · Surface
Controlled by Bennett Grocock
WOODBINE, Whitley County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519779

Steele Hollow Mine has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $400 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
2015
Latest incident
Jul 2015
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2015
11
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,200
proposed penalties
$800
paid to date
67% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $400 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2015
9
inspections on record
167
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: 167 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Steele Hollow Mine has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $400 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.
$1K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$800
paid to date
$400
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2016-03-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Steele Hollow Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.04 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 16 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.
0.04
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.24
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
16
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-06-25.
Noise
11%
over PEL
9
samples
Most recent sample: 2016-03-30.
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
2016 Q3 0 0 0
2016 Q2 1,572 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 3,252 4 0 1230.0
2015 Q4 5,878 0 0 0.0
2015 Q3 3,167 7 2 2210.3
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2015 · 1 incident

July 29, 2015 KY · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech MACHINERY
ACPKY1, LLC · Contact with hot objects or substances

Mechanic was not wearing proper PPE as trained while using cutting torches to cut metal on an axle and burned left hand.

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The full compliance file on Steele Hollow Mine

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.