Mining Incidents

Sterling-107 Coal

Middlesboro, Bell County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519601

Sterling-107 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $922 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
2011
Latest incident
Sep 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
11
citations
5
significant & substantial
$1,572
proposed penalties
$650
paid to date
41% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $922 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
8
inspections on record
218
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: 218 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Sterling-107 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $922 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$650
paid to date
$922
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2013-05-06.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Sterling-107 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.20 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 21 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.
0.20
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.31
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
21
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-01-23.
Noise
6%
over PEL
18
samples
Most recent sample: 2013-01-23.
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
2013 Q1 6,158 3 1 487.2
2012 Q4 5,350 2 0 373.8
2012 Q3 371 0 0 0.0
2012 Q2 1,125 1 0 888.9
2012 Q1 9,533 3 3 314.7
2011 Q4 13,702 0 0 0.0
2011 Q3 14,879 1 0 67.2
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2011 · 1 incident

September 1, 2011 KY · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer POWERED HAULAGE
L C & C Energy Incorporated · Struck against a moving object

While backing into loading position failed to stop & ran into bucket.

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The full compliance file on Sterling-107

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.