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#5A Coal

North Star Mining Inc. · Underground

Controlled by Carl Kirk

Dana, Floyd County, KY · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1513061

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2008
Latest incident: Mar 2008

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2007

328

citations

119

significant & substantial

$245,231

proposed penalties

$7,942

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2009 Q2	160	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	14,877	37	10	2487.1
2008 Q3	15,506	7	3	451.4
2008 Q2	11,960	21	10	1755.9
2008 Q1	1,142	48	18	42031.5
2007 Q4	20,749	44	13	2120.6
2007 Q3	18,255	45	18	2465.1
2007 Q2	10,595	32	15	3020.3

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2008 · 1 incident

March 10, 2008 KY · Coal FALL OF ROOF OR BACK

North Star Mining Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

The fall is located 20' inby survey station #218 in the #3 entry 4 crosscuts outby the section loading point of the 001 MMU. The fall is approx 120' wide X 20' wide X 4'-5' in thickness.