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Kindill Mining Incorporated: 343 MSHA citations operator

Controlled by Horizon Natural Resources Incorporated
MSHA operator ID: P24176

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
140
Mines on record
3
Years on record
1998–2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
343
citations
78
significant & substantial
$141,872
proposed penalties
$125,072
paid to date
88% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,800 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
101
inspections on record
2,507
inspection hours
13.7
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.
343 citations across 2,507 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.
$142K
proposed penalties
$137K
current assessed
$125K
paid to date
$12K
outstanding
340 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $11K in penalties contested before the Commission, $6K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-09-22.
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.
22.8%
significant & substantial
2.9%
high negligence or reckless
22.6%
reasonably likely or greater
19.4%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 1.5% low, 95.6% moderate, 2.9% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2004
ⓘ 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.
5.14
total case rate
4.67
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 5.57 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 cases per 100 workers.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2004 5.14 4.67 0.000
2003 5.69 4.74 0.000
2002 5.87 4.24 0.000
2001 9.04 6.46 0.000
2000 6.42 5.07 0.000
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: 2004-01-14, 22 years ago
98%
within 1.5 mg/m3
56
samples
1.77
dust max (mg/m3)
56 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR10
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR10
  • BLASTER/SHOOTER/SHOTFIRER7

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2003-09-15, 22 years ago
3.7
silica avg (%)
3
samples
8.1
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR2
  • ROAD GRADER OPERATOR1
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: 2004-02-03, 22 years ago
10%
over PEL
39
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • BLASTER/SHOOTER/SHOTFIRER5
  • BULLDOZER OPERATOR5
  • HIGHWALL DRILL OPERATOR5
See US mines ranked by noise samples over the legal limit.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
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
LAKE20030076 Settlement Weisberger 2003 $11K → $6K
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2004
14
2003
25
2002
20
2001
32
2000
19
1999
22
1998
8

Mines on record

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Where Kindill Mining Incorporated 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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