Mining Incidents

Terry L Matney: 1 recorded fatality controller

MSHA controller ID: C11088

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Fatalities
1
Total incidents
47
Mines on record
10
Years on record
1984–2004
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
258
citations
108
significant & substantial
$27,142
proposed penalties
$10,416
paid to date
38% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $16,726 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
128
inspections on record
2,826
inspection hours
9.1
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
258 citations across 2,826 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$27K
proposed penalties
$27K
current assessed
$10K
paid to date
$17K
outstanding
256 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2004-08-27.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.
42.2%
significant & substantial
1.2%
high negligence or reckless
42.6%
reasonably likely or greater
7.0%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 19.9% low, 78.9% moderate, 1.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2015
This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.
0.00
total case rate
0.00
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Below average. The US coal mining average was 3.76 and the all-US-mining average was 2.72 cases per 100 workers.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
Year total case rate days-away fatal
2015 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2014 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2013 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2012 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2011 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2010 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2009 * 0.00 0.00 0.000
2002 * 23.97 23.97 0.000
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.

Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.

Last sampled: 2015-11-19, 10 years ago
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
682
samples
9.51
dust max (mg/m3)
1
over MSHA ECV
The excessive concentration value (ECV) is MSHA's own per-sample enforcement threshold, which builds in measurement uncertainty; a sample over its ECV can trigger a citation. The count covers only samples MSHA assigned an ECV.
291 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 391 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR372
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)69
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR31

Silica (quartz)

Last sampled: 2015-08-05, 11 years ago
4.9
silica avg (%)
42
samples
13.5
silica max (%)
Most-sampled occupations
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR20

Noise
The share counts noise samples whose measured dose exceeded the 90 dBA permissible exposure limit. It describes the sampled workplace, not what reached the miner's ear: hearing conservation programs and the hearing protection worn during the shift are recorded separately and are not reflected here.

Last sampled: 2014-11-04, 11 years ago
0%
over PEL
51
samples
Most-sampled occupations
  • SHUTTLE CAR OPERATOR (STANDARD SIDE)16
  • CONTINUOUS MINER OPERATOR7
  • SCOOP CAR OPERATOR6
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.

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Incident timeline

2004
1
2003
2
2002
5
2001
3
2000
1
1997
1
1996
2
1995
4
1994
4
1992
2
1991
1
1990
1 (1f)
1989
5
1988
1
1986
4
1985
6
1984
4

Operators under this controller

Mines on record

Fatalities under this controller

1 recorded
April 23, 1990 WV · Coal utility man, errand boy, service truck operator Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
P M I Coal Company Inc · Struck against stationary object

RAISED UP IN CURRY CAR BEING PULLED TO SURFACE./HIT LEFT SIDE OF HEAD ON A CABLE BOARD HANGING DOWN RESULTING IN FATAL.#6 ROADWAY,1900' FROM SURFACE SPAD 575.

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Where Terry L Matney stands on silica, penalties, and injury rate

MSHA's standard limits respirable silica to 50 micrograms per cubic metre, but MSHA publishes dust and quartz as separate files and never the silica figure itself. We derive it per sample, score it against the limit, and set the operator's injury rate against a benchmark built from the full MSHA operator record. With the 26-year penalty trail, contest posture, and fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.

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