Mining Incidents

I O Coal Company, LLC operator

Controlled by Patriot Coal Corporation
MSHA operator ID: P24251
Fatalities
0
Total incidents
126
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2001–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
1,512
citations
585
significant & substantial
$2,700,471
proposed penalties
$1,329,573
paid to date
49% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,370,898 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
125
inspections on record
9,199
inspection hours
16.4
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.
1,512 citations across 9,199 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.
$2.7M
proposed penalties
$1.3M
current assessed
$1.3M
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
1,481 assessments are final orders; 39 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-05-05.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2009
2
2008
21
2007
24
2006
20
2005
25
2004
17
2003
10
2002
5
2001
2

Mines on record

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