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Colver Refuse Site Coal

Maple Coal Company · Facility

Controlled by Inter-Power/Ahlcon Partners LP

Colver, Cambria County, PA · Active

MSHA Mine ID: 3607241

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 11
Years on record: 2002–2021
Latest incident: Dec 2021

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$5,499

proposed penalties

$5,348

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	Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4	5,295	0	0.0
2025 Q3	5,315	0	0.0
2025 Q2	5,093	2	392.7
2025 Q1	5,786	3	518.5
2024 Q4	4,864	0	0.0
2024 Q3	4,608	0	0.0
2024 Q2	5,765	0	0.0
2024 Q1	5,680	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

11 on file

2021 · 1 incident

December 8, 2021 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Maple Coal Company · Struck by falling object

EE was cleaning the screen at the end of the day. EE had just entered the feeder box through the access door to clean the material stuck on the sides of the feeder box. As EE entered, EE knocked EE's hard hat off EE's head and at the same time a piece of rock stuck to the side of the feeder box fell and struck EE on top of the head. This caused a laceration on top of EE's head.

2018 · 1 incident

June 25, 2018 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Maple Coal Company · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Victim was driving a pin with a punch and hammer. When pin finally moved, finger went into pin hole and the bar pinched little finger on left hand causing a laceration that required 5 stitches.

2014 · 2 incidents

July 29, 2014 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Maple Coal Company · Struck by falling object

Employee was conducting clean-up inside and around the clean coal chute of a screen machine and using a hoe to dislodge fine coal material build-up on the chute. Unexpectedly, a homogenous section of the wet, fine material dislodged, pinning the employee knee against the side of the hopper. A large piece of material struck employee's right knee.

April 23, 2014 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Maple Coal Company · Struck by flying object

Employee was changing bucket teeth on a loader. Employee used a hammer to remove old teeth. Afterwards he noticed a small laceration on his left forearm. Two days later his forearm was sore so he went to the hospital to get x-rayed. A small shard of metal was lodged in his forearm but the doctor couldn't find it and put one stitch in his forearm.

2006 · 1 incident

September 18, 2006 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Maple Coal Company · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was cleaning off grizzly bars on the screen plant. He was on the platform leading into the loader cab. He was behind the platform railing pulling plastic from the grizzly bars when he slipped and fell between the loader and the screen plant. His left foot contacted the loader step fracturing his left ankle.

2004 · 3 incidents

December 15, 2004 PA · Coal coal/ore shovel operator, shoveler, power shoveler HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Maple Coal Company · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was cleaning the tracks on a Komatsu excavator. Employee's hand slipped off shovel and shovel handle hit employee on left side of head. Employee went to hospital and got checked out and was released and returned to work next day.

December 6, 2004 PA · Coal scalper-screen operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

Maple Coal Company · Fall from machine

Employee jumped off coal belt stacker steps and landed awkward on left foot and immediately felt pain near toes. Got x-rayed and nothing broke - just bruised.

April 14, 2004 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Maple Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

Employee was installing a tire on a pickup truck. When lifting the tire, employee's right arm at bicep area started hurting.

2003 · 2 incidents

November 4, 2003 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

Maple Coal Company · Over-exertion in lifting objects

EE WAS LIFTING 4"PVC PIPE WHEN HE FELT A PROBLEM IN HIS LOWER BACK. EE FINISHED SHIFT & REPORTED TO WORK AT 7 AM ON 11/05/03 & WORKED UNTIL 12PM THEN TOLD SUPERVISOR HIS BACK WAS HURTING. EE WENT FOR CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT & RETURNED TO WORK.

January 29, 2003 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Maple Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

THIS WAS A REOCCURRENCE OF AN ACCIDENT THAT HAPPENED 12-6-02. EE WAS OPERATING A FRONT END LOADER AND CLEANING HOPPER ON 1-29-03 AND AFTER WORK HAD A CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT. EARLY MORNING ON 1 -30-03 HAD BACK SPASMS AND DID NOT REPORT TO WORK UNTIL 2-4-03.

2002 · 1 incident

December 6, 2002 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Maple Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE WAS OPERATING FRONT END LOADER SCREENING COALAND CLEANING CLOGGED HOPPERS ON 12-6-02. IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR WAS NOTIFIED ON 12-11-02 THAT EE HURT HIS BACK ON 12-6-02 AND WAS HAVING CHIROPRA CTIC TREATMENTS AND NEEDED TO FILE AN ACCIDENT REPORT. EE COULD NOT PINPOINT TIME OF ACCIDENT.