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Dixie Fuel Company LLC: 2 recorded fatalities operator

Controlled by Joseph T Bennett
MSHA operator ID: P00006

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Fatalities
2
Total incidents
232
Mines on record
11
Years on record
1983–2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
359
citations
59
significant & substantial
$62,255
proposed penalties
$52,009
paid to date
84% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $10,246 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
167
inspections on record
4,102
inspection hours
8.8
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.
359 citations across 4,102 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.
$62K
proposed penalties
$52K
current assessed
$52K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
351 assessments are final orders; 37 contested dockets.
Of $44K in penalties contested before the Commission, $35K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-03-17.
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.
16.6%
significant & substantial
0.8%
high negligence or reckless
17.1%
reasonably likely or greater
4.8%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.6% none, 15.2% low, 83.4% moderate, 0.8% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2019
ⓘ 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.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.39 and the all-US-mining average was 2.32 cases per 100 workers.
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.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2019 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 6.22 6.22 0.000
2013 * 8.84 5.89 0.000
2012 1.80 1.80 0.000
2011 4.32 4.32 0.000
2010 4.18 4.18 0.000
2009 1.97 0.98 0.000
2008 1.03 0.00 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
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: 2020-06-03, 6 years ago
99%
within 1.5 mg/m3
430
samples
4.16
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
ⓘ The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
289 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 141 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR150
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER69
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE69

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2019-08-20, 7 years ago
11.7
silica avg (%)
25
samples
25.1
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR19
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR3
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE2
See US coal mines ranked by silica in their dust samples.

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.

Last sampled: 2020-03-20, 6 years ago
0%
over PEL
185
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER44
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR34
  • REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE29
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
ⓘ Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
90 citations taken to the federal commission · 25% of citations on record
  • Settled 90 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
ⓘ Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.
of 36 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
23%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$37K proposed, $28K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2013-02-04. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted 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.
Docket Decision Judge Year Proposed / upheld
KENT 2009-1541 Settlement McCarthy 2010 $8K → $6K
KENT 2010-227 Settlement Zielinski 2011 $5K → $3K
KENT 2010-95 Settlement Zielinski 2011 $4K → $3K
KENT 2008-714 Settlement Hodgdon 2008 $4K → $3K
KENT 2011-1515 Settlement Rae 2014 $3K → $3K
KENT20020259 Settlement Zielinski 2002 $3K → $2K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2014
1
2013
3
2012
1
2011
4
2010
4
2009
2
2008
1
2007
3
2006
4
2005
4
2004
3
2003
1
2002
1
2000
1
1995
7
1994
11
1993
19
1992
20
1991
17
1990
36
1989
22
1988
6
1987
19
1986
10
1985
6
1984
17 (1f)
1983
9 (1f)

Mines on record

Fatalities under this operator

2 recorded
August 1, 1984 KY · Coal timberman Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Dixie Fuel Company · Struck by falling object

ROOF FALL AT FACE

May 10, 1983 KY · Coal timberman Fatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Dixie Fuel Company · Struck by falling object

SETTING JACKS ON WILCOX MINER-PULLING OUT OF WORKING PLACE. ROOF FALL-ONE ROCK FELL,HORSEBACK DETECTED 17\LONG X 4\-0\ X 10\WIDE,IMMEDIATELY OUTBY FACE #1 ENTRY IN 004 SECT.

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Where Dixie Fuel Company LLC 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.

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