What are Kentucky Coal Transport, LLC's MSHA penalties?

Kentucky Coal Transport, LLC has $83K in proposed MSHA penalties on record, $7K paid, and $68K outstanding.

Kentucky Coal Transport, LLC: 161 MSHA citations operator

MSHA operator ID: A2316

Kentucky Coal Transport, LLC has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA. MSHA has proposed $83K in penalties since 2011, with $68K outstanding.

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 0
Mines on record: 0
Years on record: —

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2011

161

citations

significant & substantial

$82,697

proposed penalties

$6,759

paid to date

8% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $75,938 gap.

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Penalty disposition

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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.

$83K

proposed penalties

$74K

current assessed

$7K

paid to date

$68K

outstanding

157 assessments are final orders; 7 contested dockets.

Of $26K in penalties contested before the Commission, $18K was upheld in final decisions.

As of the most recent assessment on 2016-04-26.

Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

Violation severity profile

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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.

55.3%

significant & substantial

1.3%

high negligence or reckless

55.3%

reasonably likely or greater

18.9%

permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs

Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 14.5% low, 84.3% moderate, 1.3% high, 0.0% reckless.

Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.

When citations were contested

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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.

37 citations taken to the federal commission · 23% of citations on record

Settled 27 · 73%
Stood as issued 8 · 22%
Vacated or withdrawn 2 · 5%

94%

S&S designation survived the contest

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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 18 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%

29%

Penalty reduction in decided contests

$25K proposed, $18K 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 2016-07-06. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.

Contested penalties

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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 2015-0307	Dismissal	Andrews	2015	$15K → $11K
VA 2016-0017	Settlement	Steele	2016	$3K → $2K
VA 2015-0069	Settlement	Barbour	2015	$3K → $2K
WEVA 2016-0512	Settlement	Feldman	2017	$2K → $2K
WEVA 2015-0517	Settlement	Lesnick	2015	$2K → $308
WEVA 2016-0133	Settlement	Moran	2016	$634 → $450

Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents associated with this operator.

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Where Kentucky Coal Transport, 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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