EX-95 7 tv520578_ex95.htm EXHIBIT 95

 

Exhibit 95 Mine Safety Disclosures

 

Our principles at Sunrise Coal, LLC are safety, honesty, and compliance. We firmly believe that these values compose a dedicated workforce and with that, come high production. The core to this is our strong training programs that include accident prevention, workplace inspection and examination, emergency response and compliance. We work with the Federal and State regulatory agencies to help eliminate safety and health hazards from our workplace and increase safety and compliance awareness throughout the mining industry.

 

We are regulated by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (“Mine Act”). MSHA inspects our mines on a regular basis and issues various citations and orders when it believes a violation has occurred under the Mine Act. We present information below regarding certain violations which MSHA has issued with respect to our mines. While assessing this information please consider that the number and cost of violations will vary depending on the MSHA inspector and can be contested and appealed, and in that process, are often reduced in severity and amount, and are sometimes dismissed.

 

The disclosures listed below are provided pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act. We believe that the following disclosures comply with the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act; however, it is possible that future SEC rulemaking may require disclosures to be filed in a different format than the following.

 

The table that follows outline required disclosures and citations/orders issued to us by MSHA during the 1st Quarter 2019. The citations and orders outlined below may differ from MSHA`s data retrieval system due to timing, special assessed citations, and other factors.

 

Definitions:

 

Section 104(a) Significant and Substantial Citations “S&S”: An alleged violation of a mining safety or health standard or regulation where there exists a reasonable likelihood that the hazard outlined will result in an injury or illness of a serious nature.

 

Section 104(b) Orders: Failure to abate a 104(a) citation within the period of time prescribed by MSHA. The result of which is an order of immediate withdraw of non-essential persons from the affected area until MSHA determines the violation has been corrected.

 

Section 104(d) Citations and Orders: An alleged unwarrantable failure to comply with mandatory health and safety standards.

 

Section 107(a) Orders: An order of withdraw for situations where MSHA has determined that an imminent danger exists.

 

Section 110(b)(2) Violations: An alleged flagrant violation issued by MSHA under section 110(b)(2) of the Mine Act.

 

Pattern or Potential Pattern of Violations: A pattern of violations of mandatory health or safety standards that are of such a nature as could have significantly and substantially contributed to the cause and effect of coal mine health or safety hazards under section 104(e) of the Mine Act or a potential to have such a pattern.

 

Contest of Citations, Orders, or Proposed Penalties: A contest proceeding may be filed with the Commission by the operator or miners/miner’s representative to challenge the issuance or penalty of a citation or order issued by MSHA.

 

MSHA Federal Mine ID#`s:

12-02349 – Carlisle Mine

12-02465 – Carlisle Preparation Plant

12-02460 – Ace in the Hole Mine

12-02394 – Oaktown Fuels No. 1

12-02418 – Oaktown Fuels No. 2

12-02462 – Oaktown Fuels Preparation Plant

12-02249 – Prosperity Mine

 

 

 

 

1st Quarter 2019

 

   Section   Section   Section   Section   Section   Proposed 
   104(a)   104(b)   104(d)   107(a)   110(b)(2)   MSHA 
   Citations   Orders   Citations/Orders   Orders   Violations   Assessments 
Mine ID#                      (In thousands) 
12-02349   2    0    0    0    0   $1.60 
12-02465   0    0    0    0    0   $0.00 
12-02460   0    0    0    0    0   $0.50 
12-02394   1    0    0    0    0   $2.90 
12-02418   21    0    0    0    0   $32.45 
12-02462   1    0    0    0    0   $1.75 
12-02249   0    0    0    0    0   $0.00 

 

   Section   Section                 
   104(e)   104(e)   Mining   Legal   Legal   Legal 
   Notice   POV   Related   Actions   Actions   Actions 
   Yes/No   Yes/No   Fatalities   Pending   Initiated   Resolved 
Mine ID#                              
12-02349   No    No    0    0    0    0 
12-02465   No    No    0    0    0    0 
12-02460   No    No    0    0    0    0 
12-02394   No    No    0    0    0    1 
12-02418   No    No    0    0    0    0 
12-02462   No    No    0    0    0    0 
12-02249   No    No    0    0    0    0 

 

   Contest of   Contest   Complaints   Complaints   Applications   Appeals of 
   Citations/   of   of   of Discharge/   of Temp.   Decisions/ 
   Orders   Penalties   Compensation   Discrimination   Relief   Orders 
Mine ID#                        
12-02349   0    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02465   0    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02460   0    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02394   0    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02418   0    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02462   1    0    0    0    0    0 
12-02249   0    0    0    0    0    0