Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · Contact with electrical current
EMPL USING ELECTRICAL HOIST TO LOWER SALT BAGS FROM SECOND FLOOR TO BOTTOM FLOOR.
Waste Management Inc: 2 recorded fatalities controller
MSHA controller ID: C14267
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Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
31
citations
9
significant & substantial
$3,774
proposed penalties
$3,642
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $132 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
127
inspections on record
1,987
inspection hours
1.6
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.31 citations across 1,987 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.$4K
proposed penalties
$4K
current assessed
$4K
paid to date
$132
outstanding
31 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $60 in penalties contested before the Commission, $60 was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2024-01-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.29.0%
significant & substantial
3.2%
high negligence or reckless
29.0%
reasonably likely or greater
12.9%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 12.9% low, 83.9% moderate, 3.2% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2007
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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 4.71 and the all-US-mining average was 3.77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2004 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2003 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2002 * | 3.17 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2001 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2000 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 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
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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
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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: 2020-10-19, 5 years ago
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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.100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
81
samples
0.94
dust max (mg/m3)
0
over MSHA ECV
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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.80 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 1 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR23
- HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER23
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE9
Noise
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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: 2020-10-19, 5 years ago
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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.2%
over PEL
54
samples
Most-sampled occupations
- BULLDOZER OPERATOR15
- HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER14
- REFUSE TRUCK DRIVER/BACKFILL TRUCK DRIVE7
Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2025-09-17
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.3
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg3
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
1
citations taken to the federal commission · 3% of citations on record
- Settled 1 · 100%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$60 proposed, $60 after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2006-12-21. Vacated and withdrawn citations are removed from the file this view attributes through, so that outcome is slightly undercounted here.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.Largest penalties this controller contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket | Decision | Judge | Year | Proposed / upheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PENN 2007-103 | Settlement | Lesnick | 2007 | $60 → $60 |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE 1 fatality · 2 non-fatal
- ELECTRICAL 1 fatality
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS 9 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON 5 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED) 1 non-fatal
- MACHINERY 1 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2007
1
2006
1
2002
1
1996
1
1993
3 (1f)
1991
2
1990
7
1986
1
1985
1 (1f)
1983
2
Operators under this controller
Mines on record
Fatalities under this controller
2 recorded
January 5, 1985
PA · Coal
greaser, grease man, oiler, lube man, dragline oiler
Fatality · POWERED HAULAGE
Jeddo-Highland Coal Company · Fall from machine
DRIVING PICKUP TRUCK FROM SILT TDAM TO BREAKER EMP APPARENTLY SUFFERED STROKE AND LOST CONTROL OF PICK UP AND STRUCK CONVEYOR LINE SUPPORT COLUMN EMP FELL OUT OF TRUCK AND WAS DISCOVERED LYING GROUND IN SEMICONCIOUS CONDITION
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Where Waste Management Inc 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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