Foundation Coal Corporation controller
MSHA controller ID: 0044281
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 1204
- Mines on record
- 21
- Years on record
- 2004–2009
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
8,527
citations
2,705
significant & substantial
$8,724,646
proposed penalties
$5,346,102
paid to date
61% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,378,544 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
1,920
inspections on record
95,317
inspection hours
8.9
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.8,527 citations across 95,317 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.$8.7M
proposed penalties
$5.4M
current assessed
$5.3M
paid to date
$34K
outstanding
8,376 assessments are final orders; 236 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-05-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Top causes
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 227 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK 222 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 146 non-fatal
- HOISTING 107 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 75 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 71 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2009
112
2008
232
2007
283
2006
257
2005
116
Operators under this controller
- Emerald Coal Resources LP 316
- Cumberland Coal Resources LP 232
- Laurel Creek Company Inc 115
- Wabash Mine Holding Company 109
- Rockspring Development Inc 101
- Alpha Coal West, Inc. 58
- Kingston Mining, Inc. 44
- Simmons Fork Mining, Inc. 10
- Kingston Processing Inc 5
- Rivereagle Corporation 4
- Odell Processing Inc 3
- Pioneer Fuel Corporation 3
Mines on record
- Emerald Mine No 1 PA
- Cumberland Mine PA
- Kingston No 1 WV
- Camp Creek Mine WV
- No 6 WV
- ROCKSPRING PLANT WV
- Belle Ayr Mine WY
- Kingston No. 2 WV
- Kingston Processing WV
- Eagle Butte Mine WY
- No 1 WV
- Ewing Fork No. 1 Surface Mine WV
- No 5 WV
- Mine No 8 WV
- Paynter Branch Surface Mine WV
- CASE NO. 1 KY
- DINGESS PROCESSING COMPLEX WV
- Wabash Mine IL
- No 4 WV
- Odell Processing Laurel Loadout WV
- Pax Load Out WV
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The full compliance file on Foundation Coal Corporation
A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.