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Kentucky May Mining: 201 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Progress Energy Inc
MSHA operator ID: P24571

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
39
Mines on record
4
Years on record
2000–2003
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
201
citations
50
significant & substantial
$14,957
proposed penalties
$14,957
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
156
inspections on record
4,103
inspection hours
4.9
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.
201 citations across 4,103 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.
$15K
proposed penalties
$15K
current assessed
$15K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
194 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2003-11-12.
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.
25.4%
significant & substantial
0.0%
high negligence or reckless
32.0%
reasonably likely or greater
11.7%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 5.1% low, 94.9% moderate, 0.0% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2003
ⓘ 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.
9.14
total case rate
6.40
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US coal mining average was 5.87 and the all-US-mining average was 4.43 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2003 9.14 6.40 0.000
2002 9.34 2.80 0.000
2001 * 19.58 8.70 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: 2003-11-07, 22 years ago
86%
within 1.5 mg/m3
769
samples
6.18
dust max (mg/m3)
429 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 340 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR308
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)88
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (INTAKE SIDE)56

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2003-11-19, 22 years ago
4.8
silica avg (%)
83
samples
11.6
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR49
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: 2003-04-16, 23 years ago
15%
over PEL
41
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR12
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)7
  • ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)5
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2003
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2002
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2001
12
2000
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Where Kentucky May Mining 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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