Mining Incidents

#3 Vein Slope Coal

Little Buck Coal Co · Underground
Goodspring, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 3608702

#3 Vein Slope has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
1999
Latest incident
Apr 1999
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2000
27
citations
1
significant & substantial
$1,857
proposed penalties
$1,827
paid to date
98% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $30 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2000
119
inspections on record
1,862
inspection hours
1.5
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.
27 citations across 1,862 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

#3 Vein Slope has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 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.
$2K
proposed penalties
$2K
current assessed
$2K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
27 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2008-02-13.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at #3 Vein Slope shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.35 mg/m3 (96% compliant) across 323 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.
0.35
dust avg (mg/m3)
4.34
dust max (mg/m3)
96%
within 1.5 mg/m3
323
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-04-09.
Silica (quartz)
3.4
silica avg (%)
3.4
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2005-10-26.
Noise
0%
over PEL
26
samples
Most recent sample: 2008-02-06.
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
2010 Q1 0 0 0
2009 Q4 30 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 40 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 0 0 0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 434 0 0 0.0
Show 33 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2008 Q1 672 2 0 2976.2
2007 Q4 700 2 0 2857.1
2007 Q3 78 2 0 25641.0
2007 Q2 868 2 0 2304.1
2007 Q1 896 1 0 1116.1
2006 Q4 826 1 0 1210.7
2006 Q3 742 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 910 1 0 1098.9
2006 Q1 840 1 0 1190.5
2005 Q4 896 2 0 2232.1
2005 Q3 910 1 0 1098.9
2005 Q2 868 1 0 1152.1
2005 Q1 742 1 0 1347.7
2004 Q4 910 1 0 1098.9
2004 Q3 896 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 840 2 0 2381.0
2003 Q4 882 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 896 1 0 1116.1
2003 Q2 896 3 1 3348.2
2003 Q1 792 0 0 0.0
2002 Q4 896 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 910 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 910 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 882 0 0 0.0
2001 Q4 882 1 0 1133.8
2001 Q3 868 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 854 0 0 0.0
2001 Q1 882 0 0 0.0
2000 Q4 826 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 1,323 2 0 1511.7
2000 Q2 896 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,176 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

1999 · 1 incident

April 23, 1999 PA · Coal laborer, bull gang, faceman, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
Joliett Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE HAD FINGER ON TOP OF A TIMBER THEY WERE TAKING UP. EE HAMMERED ON ANOTHER TIMBER & A SMALL FLAT PIECE OF SLATE FELL & CUT TIP OF FINGER REQUIRING STITCHES

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The full compliance file on #3 Vein Slope

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.