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Strip #2 Coal

Valley Mining, Inc. · Surface

Controlled by Mary J Brown

Newcomerstown, Guernsey County, OH · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3303708

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2000–2004
Latest incident: May 2004

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2004

citations

significant & substantial

$60

proposed penalties

$60

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
2011 Q1	89	0	0	0.0
2010 Q4	144	0	0	0.0
2009 Q3	68	0	0	0.0
2009 Q2	176	0	0	0.0
2009 Q1	398	0	0	0.0
2008 Q4	620	0	0	0.0
2008 Q3	143	0	0	0.0
2008 Q2	145	0	0	0.0

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

No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

2 on file

2004 · 1 incident

May 24, 2004 OH · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Valley Mining, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

EMPLOYEE WAS CLIMBING UP ON A ROCK TO GET INTO HIS LOADER WHEN THE ROCK ROLLED ON HIM CAUSING HIM TO FALL AND LAND ON THE ROCK BRUISING HIS RIBS.

2000 · 1 incident

February 10, 2000 OH · Coal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Valley Mining, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WAS DOWN ON GROUND NEXT TO SPOIL PILE LOOKING OVER A PILE OF GALVANIZED PIPE WHEN HE SAW A ROCK COME ROLLING OFF THE SPOIL PILE. HE GOT OUT OF THE WAY OF THE ROCK BUT THE ROCK HIT THE PIPE AND THE PIPE HIT HIM IN THE KNEE AND LEG.