Mining Incidents

#3 Coal

Controlled by Joe Douglas Kilgore
Dante, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4406930

#3 has $403 in proposed MSHA penalties and $403 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2000
Latest incident
Mar 2000
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
4
citations
2
significant & substantial
$403
proposed penalties
$0
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $403 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
9
inspections on record
94
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: 94 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#3 has $403 in proposed MSHA penalties and $403 outstanding across 0 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$403
proposed penalties
$403
current assessed
$0
paid to date
$403
outstanding
4 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2002-01-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #3 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.26 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 8 samples.

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.
0.26
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.45
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
8
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-01-28.
Silica (quartz)
16.1
silica avg (%)
23.9
silica max (%)
2
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-02-01.
Noise
43%
over PEL
7
samples
Most recent sample: 2002-01-28.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2004 Q3 0 0 0
2004 Q2 0 0 0
2000 Q1 10 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2000 · 1 incident

March 10, 2000 VA · Coal auger helper HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Msm Inc · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HOOKED A CABLE TO A AUGER FLIGHT AND WHEN THE SLACK WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CABLE THE FLIGHT ROLLED ONTO HIS LEFT FOOT.

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The full compliance file on #3

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.