Mining Incidents

D & C Mining Corporation operator

Controlled by Horace Garrison Hill
MSHA operator ID: P23183
Fatalities
1
Total incidents
15
Mines on record
2
Years on record
2002–2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
2,689
citations
1,049
significant & substantial
$4,218,727
proposed penalties
$490,328
paid to date
12% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,728,399 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
284
inspections on record
11,841
inspection hours
22.7
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.
2,689 citations across 11,841 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.
$4.2M
proposed penalties
$3.8M
current assessed
$490K
paid to date
$3.3M
outstanding
2,565 assessments are final orders; 75 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-03-26.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Top causes

Incident timeline

2011
2
2010
2
2009
3 (1f)
2006
1
2005
2
2004
2
2003
1
2002
2

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

1 recorded
June 9, 2009 KY · Coal bull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift boss Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
D & C Mining Corporation · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Supply car was bringing concrete block into break to build permanent stoppings when chain broke letting supply car roll through curtain crushing foreman between supply car and 94L bridge causing fatal injury.

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