Straight Creek: 5 MSHA citations
Coal
Arjay,
Bell County,
KY
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1517750
Straight Creek has $241 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
- 11
- Years on record
- 1996–2000
- Latest incident
- Jan 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
3
significant & substantial
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 105 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Straight Creek has $241 in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
3 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2000-09-08.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
60.0%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
60.0%
reasonably likely or greater
40.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 60.0% low, 40.0% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Straight Creek shows 100% of 12 respirable coal dust samples met the 1.5 mg/m3 standard.
Health sampling
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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
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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.
Last sampled: 2000-07-26, 26 years ago
10 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 2 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR6
- HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR3
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE2
Silica (quartz)
Last sampled: 2000-08-02, 26 years ago
Most-sampled occupations
- HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR2
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR1
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE1
Noise
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The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.
Last sampled: 2000-07-26, 26 years ago
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR5
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE2
- HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER1
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Straight Creek recorded 2.40 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2000.
Injury rate, 2000
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 7.74 and the all-US-mining average was 5.64 cases per 100 workers.
In Kentucky, coal mining averaged 8.83 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Workforce and production
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Coal production is reported quarterly and lags the current period; the most recent quarters may be incomplete.
| Year |
Employees |
Coal produced (tons) |
| 2001 |
0 |
|
| 2000 |
29 |
172,053 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Straight Creek sits in Bell County, Kentucky, where the Census mining category is 3.6% of county employment.
Local economic context
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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.
Bell County, Kentucky · Population 23,878
3.6%
Mining share of county employment
$32,403
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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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 |
| 2001 Q2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 Q1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2000 Q3 |
23,230 |
3 |
3 |
129.1 |
| 2000 Q2 |
29,242 |
2 |
0 |
68.4 |
| 2000 Q1 |
30,867 |
0 |
0 |
0.0 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
11 on file
2000 · 1 incident
January 6, 2000
KY · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Over-exertion in pulling or pushing objects
EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO OPEN DOZER DOOR, WHEN HE PULLED HARD ON THE DOOR HE HEARD SOMETHING POP IN UPPER BACK. NOTE: EE DID NOT GO TO DR UNTIL JAN 27. EE DID NOT COME TO TALK UNTIL 3/29/00. HE RE PORTED IT TO ME TODAY.
1999 · 1 incident
September 27, 1999
KY · Coal
grader operator, roadgrader operator
MACHINERY
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object
EE WAS GRADING THE HAUL ROAD WHEN THE BLADE OF THE GRADER STRUCK A ROCK THAT WOULD NOT MOVE. SUDDEN STOPPAGE OF GRADER CAUSED JERKING MOTION, HURTING LOWER BACK.
1998 · 6 incidents
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object
EE WAS A PASSENGER OF A FLATBED TRUCK THAT DROPPED OFF SHOULDER AND WHEN DRIVER STEERED BACK ONTO THE ROAD, HE OVERSTEERED AND TRUCK WENT OVER EMBANKMENT ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD.
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object
EE DROPPED RIGHT FRONT WHEEL OF FLAT BEDTRUCK OFF RIGHT SHOULDER. IN HIS ATTEMPT TO GET BACK ON THE RAOD HE OVER STEERED AND LOST CONTROL GOING OVER AN EMBANKMENT ON LEFT SIDE OF ROAD
July 10, 1998
KY · Coal
haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver
POWERED HAULAGE
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object
PAD BOX BROKE ON REAR AXLE CAUSING AXLE TO TWIST THUS BREAKING OTHER PAD BOX. THIS RESULTED IN REAR AXLE FALLING OFF TRUCK AND CAUSING LOADED TRUCK TO TURN OVER ON IT'S RIGHT SIDE. DRIVER WAS PINNED IN CAB.
June 3, 1998
KY · Coal
coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler
MACHINERY
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Struck against a moving object
OPERATOR WAS LOADING SPOIL MATERIAL AND ROCK INTO A TRUCK. EE SWUNG THE BUCKET AROUND STRIKING A LARGE ROCK JERKING THE EXCAVATOR AND OPERATOR.
April 15, 1998
KY · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
MACHINERY
EMPLOYEE WAS PUSHING DIRT AWAY FROM HIGHWALL WHEN THE HIGHWALL FELL ON DOZER. ROCK AND DIRT CAME INTO CAB STRIKING EMPLOYEE.
EE WAS CLOSING LID ON 99SG WHEN HIS LEFT FOOT SLIPPED CAUSING HIM TO FALL HEAD FIRST IN THE HOLE WHERE THE TRANSMISSION IS. THE EE'S KNEE TWISTED SIDEWAYS AND HE LANDED ON HIS ELBOW
1997 · 2 incidents
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Fall to the walkway or working surface
EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING ON A 922 LOADER DURING SERVICING OPERATION WHEN HE FELL THUS HITTING HIS ARM ON THE LOADER.
Nally & Hamilton Enterprises Inc · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
EMPLOYEE WAS MOVING A BARREL OF TRANSMISSION FLUID WHEN THE BARREL SLIPPED AND LANDED ON HIS LEFT FOOT.
1996 · 1 incident
March 5, 1996
KY · Coal
bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer
OTHER
NATURAL CAUSES-MASSIVE HEART ATTACK.