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ICG-Illinois, LLC: 3,857 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Knight Hawk Holdings, LLC
MSHA operator ID: 0054841

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
376
Mines on record
1
Years on record
2004–2024
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
3,857
citations
913
significant & substantial
$3,552,370
proposed penalties
$3,062,419
paid to date
86% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $489,951 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
846
inspections on record
67,837
inspection hours
5.7
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.
3,857 citations across 67,837 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.
$3.6M
proposed penalties
$3.1M
current assessed
$3.1M
paid to date
$0
outstanding
3,765 assessments are final orders; 92 contested dockets.
Of $1.4M in penalties contested before the Commission, $941K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-09-05.
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.
24.1%
significant & substantial
4.1%
high negligence or reckless
24.1%
reasonably likely or greater
23.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.2% none, 5.5% low, 90.2% moderate, 4.1% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2024
ⓘ 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.
2.11
total case rate
2.11
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.16 and the all-US-mining average was 2.08 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
2024 * 2.11 2.11 0.000
2023 6.30 4.20 0.000
2022 3.36 2.52 0.000
2021 2.10 2.10 0.000
2020 1.62 0.54 0.000
2019 1.98 0.40 0.000
2018 1.90 1.52 0.000
2017 3.47 1.93 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: 2025-02-11
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
10,876
samples
9.72
dust max (mg/m3)
23
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.
2,303 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 8,573 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)3,190
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR3,044
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)2,037

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2025-02-19
5.7
silica avg (%)
907
samples
51.0
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR298
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)257
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)146
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: 2025-02-11
21%
over PEL
470
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)76
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR71
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)59
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.
367 citations taken to the federal commission · 10% of citations on record
  • Settled 348 · 95%
  • Stood as issued 19 · 5%
66%
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 263 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
34%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1.4M proposed, $933K 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 2024-10-23. 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
LAKE 2011-412 Settlement Augustine 2012 $72K → $26K
LAKE 2010-986 Settlement Paez 2012 $61K → $45K
LAKE 2010-1015 Settlement Paez 2012 $60K → $31K
LAKE 2011-266 Settlement Zielinski 2012 $52K → $40K
LAKE 2013-160 Dismissal Andrews 2015 $49K → $30K
LAKE 2011-315 Settlement Andrews 2012 $49K → $38K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2024
1
2023
7
2022
7
2021
8
2020
3
2019
10
2018
6
2017
15
2016
10
2015
14
2014
11
2013
7
2012
22
2011
27
2010
27
2009
30
2008
47
2007
39
2006
29
2005
48
2004
8

Mines on record

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Where ICG-Illinois, 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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