Mining Incidents

White Oak Coal

Warfield, Martin County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519823

White Oak has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Dec 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
29
citations
8
significant & substantial
$10,338
proposed penalties
$3,386
paid to date
33% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $6,952 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
24
inspections on record
892
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: 892 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

White Oak has $10K in proposed MSHA penalties and $7K 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.
$10K
proposed penalties
$10K
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$7K
outstanding
28 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2023-06-07.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at White Oak shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.09 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 43 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.
0.09
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.13
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
43
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-08.
Noise
0%
over PEL
19
samples
Most recent sample: 2023-02-01.
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
2023 Q3 827 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 825 2 2 2424.2
2023 Q1 1,535 1 0 651.5
2022 Q4 779 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 1,128 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 2,020 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 2,136 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 2,538 0 0 0.0
Show 15 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q3 2,099 4 0 1905.7
2021 Q2 1,531 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 1,655 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 528 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 0 0 0
2020 Q2 3,351 4 1 1193.7
2020 Q1 15,000 1 1 66.7
2019 Q4 22,389 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 22,194 0 0 0.0
2019 Q2 25,446 8 3 314.4
2019 Q1 22,377 9 1 402.2
2018 Q4 13,870 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 11,524 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 500 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2019 · 2 incidents

December 7, 2019 KY · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lexington Coal Company, LLC · Fall from machine

Employee was climbing up step of rock truck and fell back onto ground.

June 13, 2019 KY · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Lexington Coal Company, LLC · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was climbing down ladder of HWM Launch when EE's foot slipped off step causing EE to fall. EE caught self by holding onto handrail straining EE's right shoulder.

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The full compliance file on White Oak

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.