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Commonwealth No. 2 Coal

Beechwood Coal, LLC · Surface

Controlled by Faith Ritchie; Jody L Ritchie

Lonaconing, Allegany County, MD · Abandoned and Sealed

MSHA Mine ID: 1800730

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2001
Latest incident: Aug 2001

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$11,751

proposed penalties

$11,575

paid to date

Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.

Quarterly safety rates

Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA

Quarter	Hours worked	Citations	S&S	Per 1M hrs
2017 Q2	0	0	0
2017 Q1	0	0	0
2016 Q4	0	0	0
2016 Q3	0	0	0
2016 Q2	0	0	0
2016 Q1	0	0	0
2015 Q4	268	0	0	0.0
2015 Q3	1,882	2	1	1062.7

Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2001 · 1 incident

August 14, 2001 MD · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Jenkins Development Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

PROJECTED SMALL PIECE OF PIPE--EE WAS ATTEMPTING TO UNLATCH A SNAP BOOMER. HE MISTAKENLY USED A SMALL PIECE OF PIPE FOR LEVERAGE. CONSEQUENTLY WHEN BOOMER RELEASED PIPE WAS PROJECTED TOWARD EE , STRIKING HIM IN EAR AREA, CAUSING LACERATION.