North Star Mining Inc operator
Controlled by
Carl Kirk
MSHA operator ID: P23909
- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 71
- Mines on record
- 11
- Years on record
- 1998–2008
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
1,778
citations
653
significant & substantial
$506,603
proposed penalties
$118,990
paid to date
23% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $387,613 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
402
inspections on record
13,438
inspection hours
13.2
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.1,778 citations across 13,438 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections 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.$507K
proposed penalties
$497K
current assessed
$119K
paid to date
$378K
outstanding
1,738 assessments are final orders; 18 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2009-03-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Top causes
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 23 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 13 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 12 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 8 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 6 non-fatal
- POWERED HAULAGE 5 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2008
4
2007
5
2006
3
2005
16
2004
7
2003
9
2002
2
2000
13
1999
6
1998
6
Mines on record
- Risner #1 KY
- No 12 KY
- #5A KY
- #4B KY
- 4 A KY
- No 4 KY
- Pond Creek No 2 KY
- No 11 KY
- Copeland Mine KY
- Greasy Creek #16 KY
- No 3 KY
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