Mining Incidents

Wright Fork Coal

Controlled by Robert C Billips
Jenkins, Letcher County, KY  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 1519038

Wright Fork has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $300 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
2007
Latest incident
Aug 2007
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
16
citations
3
significant & substantial
$1,416
proposed penalties
$1,116
paid to date
79% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $300 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2006
7
inspections on record
185
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: 185 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Wright Fork has $1K in proposed MSHA penalties and $300 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
$1K
paid to date
$300
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-09-16.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Wright Fork shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.08 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 15 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.
0.08
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.17
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
15
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-06-30.
Noise
0%
over PEL
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-01-16.
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
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 3,139 4 2 1274.3
2008 Q2 3,112 3 0 964.0
2008 Q1 3,442 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 2,938 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 3,249 3 0 923.4
2007 Q2 3,132 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2007 Q1 2,337 3 0 1283.7
2006 Q4 3,136 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2007 · 1 incident

August 2, 2007 KY · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator DUST DISEASE OF LUNGS
Bayonet MNG. Co, Inc · Inhalation of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

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