we have done a great job but we have a
lot more to do we've done a great job
we've had we've had last year 27
fatalities too many but it's down so
substantially in the last hundred years
I think a lot of people don't really
understand just how far this industry
has come but the Falls our roof from rib
or something that historically has
plagued the mining industry you don't
feel like we've made a lot of tremendous
progress on we had two incidents with
that last year lifelong silicosis pmf
should be out of this of the past
current data shows that they're being
managed properly but it shows that
within the last 20 years it hasn't
always been that way they were processes
out of control
Howard haulage powered haulage has to
improve powered haulage safety has been
roughly 50% of our fatalities over the
last 20 years conveyor belt injuries and
fatalities is something that we are
pushing hard on the enforcement side
through seat belts seat belts save lives
and we have every 10 year period 34 to
38 honours to dodge because they don't
want to wear their seat belt
we're down the tonnage is down but
there's still problems that are facing
the industry that we have to deal with
this and they see one being staff
turnover another being how we manage our
resources to meet the needs of the other
industry as they're in the con there's
still safety issues that have to be
addressed and we want to make sure that
our - work safe we do have a guidance
memo that we recently issued to industry
the purpose of the guidance memo is that
we reevaluate the break through
potential from our impoundments into
into mine works that may be adjacent or
underneath the impoundment through that
memo we outline a series of steps that
we want the engineers to look at and
that's identify the coal seams identify
any mining that that has occurred in
that and then identify the breakthrough
potential and impact of breakthrough if
it was to occur and through that we are
addressing osm concerns as they've
identified some metals are due July of
next year we will be reviewing those as
permit revisions when they are submitted
they're the the Candide order is a it's
a small fish it's typically less than
three inches and it's found in the
Gauley River watershed and the New River
watershed in Virginia so if you're
planning a project and one of those
watersheds you need to look out for it
because it was officially listed on the
endangered species list back in November
of 2018 these big sandy crayfish and the
Gondar is a crayfish listed in 2016
however they did not officially
designate the critical habitat for that
species and by the end of this year 2019
this function
designating those critical habitats we
have for the last 25 years operated off
of the 1996 biological opinions which is
smacker in the ESA we have a new
biological opinion that's currently
being developed the draft should come
out next month so everyone will get a
chance to look at that and whenever the
final rule does come out that will
likely result in some changes to the
permitting process
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