83% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,015 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
483
inspections on record
13,663
inspection hours
3.7
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.
503 citations across 13,663 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
ⓘDifferences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$68K
proposed penalties
$62K
current assessed
$62K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
497 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
Of $20K in penalties contested before the Commission, $14K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2006-05-12.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
ⓘShares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2004
ⓘ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.
2.89
total case rate
2.17
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 5.57 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
Year
total case rate
days-away
fatal
2004
2.89
2.17
0.000
2003
4.91
3.89
0.169
2002
3.97
1.83
0.000
2001
6.59
5.93
0.000
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.
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.
Last sampled: 2013-05-01, 13 years ago
97%
within 1.5 mg/m3
1,792
samples
4.42
dust max (mg/m3)
943 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 849 by the operator.
Noise
ⓘ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.
Contested penalties
ⓘA reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.
Largest penalties this operator contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C · Struck by flying object
EE WAS OPERATING A SCOOP TO KNOCK OUT A STOPPING BETWEEN ENTRIES & CLEAN UP BLOCKS & OTHER MATERIAL. WHILE SCOOPING, THE BUCKET PICKED UP A 20' SECTION OF 4" DIAMETER HARD PLASTIC PIPE WITH A METAL COUPLING ON ONE END. THE END OF THE PIPE OPPOSITE THE OPERATOR HIT THE RIB & THE COUPLING END CAUGHT THE INNER CORNER OF THE BUCKET ON THEOPERATOR'S SIDE, BOWED & STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD.
AEP Kentucky Coal, L.L.C. · Struck against a moving object
DRIVER APPARENTLY DROVE TRUCK OVER THE HILL.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where AEP Kentucky Coal, L. L. C. stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate
MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes
dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample,
score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from
the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality
history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.