100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
13
inspections on record
128
inspection hours
n/a
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.
Rate withheld: 128 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
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.
$55
proposed penalties
$55
current assessed
$55
paid to date
$0
outstanding
1 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-10-15.
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.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
Injury rate, 2004
ⓘ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
No reportable injury cases in any year shown. Employee-hours were reported in each of those years, so these are true zeros rather than missing data. Citations, listed in the compliance record above, are inspector-found violations and are counted separately from worker injuries.
Below average. The US coal mining average was 5.57 and the all-US-mining average was 4.33 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
2004 *
0.00
0.00
0.000
2003 *
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
ⓘ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: 2006-05-18, 20 years ago
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
13
samples
0.50
dust max (mg/m3)
13 samples taken by MSHA inspectors, 0 by the operator.
Most-sampled occupations
HIGHLIFT OPERATOR/FRONT END LOADER8
UTILITY MAN3
ASSIST MINE FOREMAN/ASSIST MINE MANAGER1
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.
August 24, 1995TN · Coalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderFatality · FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
THE EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY LOADING OR HAULAGE MINING EQUIPMENT AS HE WAS CROSSING THE MINE ROAD. A CO-WORKER DISCOVERED THE BODY IN THE ROADWAY NEAR HIS PERSONAL VEHICLE. THERE WERE NO WITNESS ES & IT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED:[A] THE EXACT MACHINE INVOLVED, [B] WHETHER OR NOT THE EMPLOYEE WAS WALKING OR IF HE HAD COLLASPED DUE TO A PHYSICAL PROBLEM JUST PRIOR TO BEING STRUCK.
May 12, 1993TN · Coalbull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift bossFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
WHILE TROUBLE SHOOTING ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT ON CONTINUOUS MINING MACHINE EMPL'S FOREARM CONTACTED ENERGIZED 950 VOLT A.C. CIRCUIT. SUBJECT ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT WITH WHICH PERSONAL CONTACT WAS MADE WOULD NOT NORMALLY BE ENERGIZED HOWEVER ELECTRICAL CONTACTOR WAS STUCK IN MACHINES'S CONTROL PANEL. EMPL COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THIS CONDITION EXISTED.
October 31, 1990KY · Coalbeltman, conveyor man, conveyor belt worker, mobile bridge carrierman, feeder operator, conveyor riderFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
EMPL HAD BEEN INSTALLING ROOF BOLTS IN #1 ENTRY. HE WAS DISCOVERED BY COWORKERS LYING ON BACK NEAR CONTROLS OF MACHINE & UNDER PERMANENTLY SUPPORTED ROOF. SECTION OF ROOF MEASURING 12'LONGX7.5 'WIDEX1" TO 12" THICK HAD FALLEN INBY PERMANENT ROOF SUPPORTS. THERE WAS NO ROCK ON VICTIM.
August 6, 1986KY · Coalbull gang foreman, labor foreman, leadman, section foreman, shift bossFatality · POWERED HAULAGE
36'' PIECE OF D9ILL STEEL BECAME LODGED BETWEEN WOODEN HALF-HEADER HELD AGAINST ROOF BY ROOF BOLT AND INJUREDS CHEST WHILE HE WAS OPERATING BATTERY POWERED TRACK MOTOR BEING USED AS MANTRIP.TH IS CONCLUSION R9ACHED BY INVESTIGATION MADE BY FED,STATE,& COMPANY OFFICIALS.
For insurers, brokers, and safety consultants
Where Williams Companies 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.