MINE DETAILS
Lively Grove Mine
LOCATION
Mine location
1 of 1 mine with usable MSHA coordinates. Select a marker to open a mine.
Mine coordinates
- Lively Grove Mine38.28306, -89.65472Open map ↗
Quarterly trends
2025 Q1 – 2026 Q4
Database snapshot · 2026-10-13. MSHA quarterly production and employment reports.
Coal production
9,511,240reported short tons
Hours worked
1,355,870reported employee hours
Tons per hour
7.01production ÷ hours worked
Missing values appear as —. Totals use available reports. Tons per hour requires production and hours for the same quarters and a nonzero hours total. * Striped bars mark partial mine coverage or an incomplete quarter. See the table for coverage.
Quarterly data and reporting coverage
| Quarter | Coal (short tons) | Hours worked | Tons / hour | Avg. employees | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q1 | 1,705,308 | 220,041 | 7.75 | 451 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q2 | 1,530,791 | 218,553 | 7.00 | 458 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q3 | 1,564,185 | 220,651 | 7.09 | 468 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2025 Q4 | 1,470,894 | 223,781 | 6.57 | 469 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q1 | 1,677,640 | 239,106 | 7.02 | 458 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q2 | 1,562,422 | 233,738 | 6.68 | 463 | 1/1 mines reporting |
| 2026 Q3 | — | — | — | — | No report |
| 2026 Q4 | — | — | — | — | No report |
Safety and enforcement
2025-01-01 – 2026-10-13
Violations
54485 significant & substantial (S&S)
Accident records
510 records classified as fatality
Proposed penalties · USD
432,622.00515 of 544 violations with amounts
On-site inspection hours
5,331.7591 inspections · 91 with hours
Counts are published records, including contractor records. * The quarter was incomplete at the snapshot date; recent counts may rise as reports arrive. — means no reported amount or hours. Portfolio totals use current membership.
Quarterly safety data
| Quarter | Violations | S&S | Proposed USD | Accident records | Fatality records | Inspections | On-site hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q1 | 59 | 8 | 31,707.00 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 731.0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 65 | 10 | 73,851.00 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 779.8 |
| 2025-Q3 | 78 | 16 | 63,485.00 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 774.0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 84 | 17 | 92,569.00 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 824.0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 80 | 8 | 53,748.00 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 710.0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 89 | 17 | 85,696.00 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 793.5 |
| 2026-Q3 | 77 | 7 | 31,566.00 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 713.5 |
| 2026-Q4 * | 12 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6.0 |
Most cited CFR sections
All violations issued in the selected period. Counts combine subsections.
Safety activity
103(i) Spot Inspections · 0.0 on-site hours
75.370(a)(1)
75.220(a)(1)
75.370(a)(1)
75.604(b) · S&S
75.380(d)(7)(iv) · S&S
75.370(a)(1)
75.220(a)(1)
75.512
75.202(a)
75.220(a)(1)
75.202(a)
75.370(a)(1)
Verbal Hazard Complaint Inspections · 6.0 on-site hours
Regular Safety and Health Inspection · 0.0 on-site hours
103(i) Spot Inspections · 6.0 on-site hours
Spot Inspection · 9.0 on-site hours
103(i) Spot Inspections · 7.5 on-site hours
75.1731(c)
HANDLING OF MATERIALS · DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
Accident narrative
Employee reported eye irritation from contact behind eyeglasses with tie wire. They initially refused treatment and then sought treatment a few hours later.
75.523-3(c)(2)
75.1725(a)
75.503
75.503
75.1725(a) · S&S
Safety sources and definitions
MSHA Violations (issue date), Accidents (accident date), and Inspections (begin date). Snapshot 2026-10-13.
Counts describe published rows, including contractor records; accident records are not distinct incidents or numbers of people injured.
Zero means no matching records in the imported sources, not proof of no events. Historical coverage differs by source; absence before a source begins reporting is not a zero incident rate. Invalid or absent dates and records after the snapshot are excluded.
S&S means SIG_SUB=Y. Fatality records use DEGREE_INJURY_CD=01. Proposed penalties are not final assessed or paid amounts; missing dollar values are omitted.
Inspection hours are SUM_TOTAL_ON_SITE_HOURS attributed to the inspection start date, without supervisor/trainee hours. Missing hours are omitted; a started inspection may still be open.
Portfolio totals use current mine membership, including events before the current owner or operator's tenure.
CFR headings link to the current Title 30 index; they are not historical legal determinations.
EIA-923 · COAL RECEIPTS
Coal shipments and quality
Receipts reported by power plants and terminals, matched by MSHA mine ID.
Quarterly receipts and quality
| Quarter | Short tons | Heat · Btu/lb | Sulfur % | Ash % | Delivered USD/ton | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-Q3 * | 1,047,964 | 8,882 | 3.61 | 24.64 | — | |
| 2025-Q4 | 1,311,119 | 8,902 | 3.61 | 24.24 | — | |
| 2026-Q1 | 1,709,460 | 8,952 | 3.70 | 23.52 | — | |
| 2026-Q2 | 1,538,001 | 8,974 | 3.55 | 23.29 | — | |
| 2026-Q3 * | 461,893 | 8,730 | 3.56 | 24.90 | — |
| Month / source | Receiving plant / supplier | Short tons | Delivered USD/ton | Heat · Btu/lb | Sulfur % | Ash % | Purchase | Transport |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07EIA row 13002 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 461,893 | —Not published | 8,730 | 3.56 | 24.90 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-06EIA row 11054 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 496,287 | —Not published | 8,915 | 3.53 | 23.80 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-05EIA row 9150 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 521,207 | —Not published | 8,975 | 3.51 | 23.20 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-04EIA row 7369 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 520,507 | —Not published | 9,030 | 3.61 | 22.90 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-03EIA row 5556 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 663,503 | —Not published | 9,020 | 3.73 | 23.00 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-02EIA row 3686 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 517,605 | —Not published | 8,955 | 3.67 | 23.40 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2026-01EIA row 1738 · preliminary | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 528,352 | —Not published | 8,865 | 3.68 | 24.30 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2025-12EIA row 36411 · final | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 387,576 | —Not published | 8,890 | 3.58 | 24.50 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2025-11EIA row 33413 · final | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 482,703 | —Not published | 8,965 | 3.61 | 23.70 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2025-10EIA row 30445 · final | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 440,840 | —Not published | 8,845 | 3.65 | 24.60 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2025-09EIA row 27436 · final | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 540,959 | —Not published | 8,935 | 3.62 | 24.40 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
| 2025-08EIA row 24357 · final | Prairie State Generating Station55856 · IL · LIVELY GROVE MINE | 507,005 | —Not published | 8,825 | 3.59 | 24.90 | ContractBIT | Tram/conveyor |
Delivered cost includes transport and is not mine revenue. Missing prices remain blank. * Fewer than three months are published in the selected quarter. Receipts reflect the months EIA has published; an unfinished quarter is not comparable with a full quarter. Portfolio matches use current ownership.
Coverage, sources and calculations
- Reported coal receipts at EIA-923 power plants/terminals; this is not a census of mine shipments, exports or metallurgical sales.
- Matches use only the published MSHA ID, normalized to seven digits. Unidentified mine origins remain in the source table but are not assigned to a mine.
- Portfolio attribution uses current MSHA ownership, not ownership at the shipment date. Receipts and production can differ because of timing, stocks and coverage.
- Quality means are weighted by positive reported tons with that measurement. Delivered cost uses only rows with published cost, positive heat and positive tons; missing/withheld costs are never zero-filled.
- USD/ton = (cents/MMBtu ÷ 100) × MMBtu/ton. This is plant delivered cost, not mine sales price or revenue.
- Receipt month is as published, including records supplied by annual respondents. Recent months are preliminary and subject to revision. Missing rows do not prove zero shipments.
Imported releases start 2008-01. This window includes 12 published months. EIA releases · Survey instructions
- 2026 · preliminary · EIA923_Schedules_2_3_4_5_M_07_2026_21SEP2026.xlsx · Page 5 Fuel Receipts and Costs
- 2025 · final · EIA923_Schedules_2_3_4_5_M_12_2025_Final.xlsx · Page 5 Fuel Receipts and Costs
EIA ANNUAL COAL REPORT · 2024
Coal prices and estimated revenue
Annual county prices and a production-based allocation of county coal sales.
The estimate assumes each eligible mine receives its county-average price and shares county sales in proportion to production. Actual sales and prices can differ substantially. Unavailable estimates are excluded; this is not a total for the whole portfolio. Annual price data uses a separate window from the MSHA charts.
| Mine / county | Annual production · tons | County FOB · USD/ton | Est. sales · tons | Est. coal revenue · USD | Basis / availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lively Grove Mine1103193 · Washington, Illinois | 6,817,740 | — | — | — | County sales or price not published1 eligible mines / 1 sales respondents |
Method, assumptions and source records
- This is an annual county-sales allocation, not reported mine or company revenue. Currency is nominal USD in the source year; quantities are short tons.
- Mine share = same-year annual mine production / eligible same-county production. Estimated sales = published county sales × share. Estimated coal revenue = estimated sales × published county average FOB price.
- The model assumes eligible mines share county sales in proportion to production and receive the county-average price. Matching mine counts is a check, not proof of identical respondents. Mine quality, contracts and sales timing can differ substantially. No statistical confidence interval is implied.
- FOB excludes transport and insurance. EIA-923 delivered costs do not enter this model. No grade premium, state/national fallback, quarterly apportionment or carry-forward to a later year is applied.
- Eligibility follows the source's production threshold and excludes preparation-only and refuse operations. Withheld values, inconsistent county counts and missing/ambiguous locations produce no estimate.
- County sales are published in thousands of tons and prices to cents. Calculations retain precision, but the inputs are rounded and the allocation is approximate.
- Portfolio attribution uses current MSHA ownership, not ownership during the sales year. Covered-mine sums exclude unavailable estimates and must not be read as whole-company revenue. Coverage denominators use the annual EIA mine-production release.
Sales-reporting threshold: 50,000 short tons per mine in 2024. Withheld sales or prices stay unavailable.
EIA Table 30 · county sales and FOB prices · EIA annual mine production · Release index
Annual report released November 19, 2025. Method: county-sales-allocation-v1. JSON and CSV preserve source row numbers and file checksums.
OWNERSHIP
Operator and controller history
Current ownership comes from MSHA Mines. Historical start and end dates come from MSHA Controller and Operator History.
Prairie State Energy Campus Management InccontrolsPrairie State Generating Company LLCoperatesLively Grove Mine
msha-controller-operator-history · controller/operator co-tenure derived on mine 1103193Other historical summaries · source-specific periods
RECORD SUMMARY
Production, safety and enforcement
These summaries use the periods stated on each card, independently of the reporting period above.
Accidents and injuries
433 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 18,543 lost days across the published record.
accidentsmine-production-quarterlyViolations and penalties
2,883 violation rows across the full record; 538 carry an S&S flag and $1,768,608 appears in current assessed amounts.
inspectionsviolationsassessed-violationsorders-107aOccupational health samples
35,511 coal dust; 1,550 coal quartz; 877 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 182 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
coal-dust-samplesquartz-samplesnoise-samplesQuarterly production and employment
234K employee hours and 463 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
mine-production-quarterlymine-production-yearlyContests, conferences and decisions
426 contested-violation rows, 427 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 149 conference records linked by issuance number.
conferencescontested-violationscivil-penalty-dockets-decisionsContractors
Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
contractor-production-quarterlycontractor-production-yearlyaccidentsviolationsInspections
627 inspection events and 72K published inspection hours across the historical record.
inspectionsviolationsHEALTH SAMPLING
Silica and quartz
Coal quartz, metal/nonmetal personal samples and area samples. Snapshot Oct 13, 2026. 1,550 silica records across the mine’s published history.
Coal quartz concentration
Quarterly mean · µg/m³ · not-voided samples
— No eligible measurements. * Quarter in progress. Means describe the available samples, not average exposure across the mine.
Quartz % is the sample’s quartz content; µg/m³ is its reported concentration. Personal C/E is the ratio to the limit published with that sample. Personal and area concentration units and void status are not specified in those source files.
| Date / sample | Dataset / analyte | Occupation / area | Measurement | Sample status | Published action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58555800 / lab 2026038906 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 6 µg/m³4.3% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555816 / lab 2026038900 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 12 µg/m³3.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555812 / lab 2026038903 | Coal quartzQuartz | OCCUPATION CODE NOT FOUNDDESIGNATED AREA | 17 µg/m³2.3% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555823 / lab 2026038902 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 5 µg/m³2.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555796 / lab 2026038904 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 11 µg/m³1.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556309 / lab 2026036405 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 6 µg/m³1.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556303 / lab 2026036403 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 10 µg/m³1.7% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556141 / lab 2026036406 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 12 µg/m³1.7% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556143 / lab 2026036407 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 2 µg/m³0.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555826 / lab 2026035577 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 6 µg/m³1.6% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555818 / lab 2026035574 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 13 µg/m³2.7% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556126 / lab 2026035576 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 5 µg/m³1.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555804 / lab 2026035571 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 6 µg/m³1.4% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555839 / lab 2026035380 | Coal quartzQuartz | BULLDOZER OPERATORDESIGNATED WORK POSITION | 3 µg/m³3.3% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556130 / lab 2026033619 | Coal quartzQuartz | CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATORDESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 6 µg/m³1.2% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555799 / lab 2026033617 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 4 µg/m³1.8% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555813 / lab 2026033624 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 1 µg/m³0.5% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555831 / lab 2026033623 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 2 µg/m³1.1% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58555832 / lab 2026029793 | Coal quartzQuartz | ROOF BOLTER (TWIN HEAD) (RETURN SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 12 µg/m³3.7% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
| 58556128 / lab 2026029795 | Coal quartzQuartz | SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)NON DESIGNATED OCCUPATION | 7 µg/m³1.9% quartz | Not voided | Not reported |
Sources and interpretation
- Coal means use numeric concentrations from samples marked not voided, excluding control/invalid sample types and dates after the snapshot. Missing values remain null; reported zeroes remain zero.
- Quarterly means describe available samples, not mine-wide or worker-average exposure. Quarters with no eligible measurements remain empty; the current quarter is partial.
- Personal C/E is MSHA's published concentration-to-limit ratio. A value above 1 is not by itself a citation or a determination under the 2024 silica rule. Personal and area files do not publish a void-status field.
- Area records include bulk-dust analyses and are kept separate from personal exposure results. Their concentration units are not specified in the source dictionary.
- Missing samples do not establish safe conditions. Coal quartz percentage and concentration are separate measures. No compliance threshold is inferred for coal samples.
Coal quartz field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal personal field definitions ↗Metal/nonmetal area field definitions ↗
EIA + TITLE 30
EIA production and cited regulations
EIA annual figures are reported separately from MSHA. Regulation links use the current eCFR snapshot.
- LABOR HOURS
- 898,725
- AVG EMPLOYEES
- 444
- SUPPLY REGION
- Illinois Basin
- UNION
- No union code published
- OPERATION
- Mine only
- COMPANY TYPE
- Operating Subsidiary
1 published EIA row aggregated under this MSHA ID. Components remain available in JSON.
RECENT PUBLIC RECORDS
Recent violations and samples
Latest records retained for inspection; aggregates above use the full source history.
Coal dust, noise and other contaminants. Silica records above ↑
SOURCE COVERAGE
Reporting dates and coverage
17 datasets contain linked records. Missing datasets are listed below.
NOTES
Limitations
- Contractor production is entity-level and is never represented as mine-attributable.
- Missing rows can mean no event, publication delay, identity mismatch, or inapplicability.