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Rochester Mills Strip Mine Coal

T L H Coal Co. · Surface

Controlled by Thomas H Loughry; John W Loughry

Marion Center, Indiana County, PA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3607437

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2002
Latest incident: Aug 2002

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

citations

significant & substantial

$3,092

proposed penalties

$2,272

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
2020 Q2	0	1
2020 Q1	35	1	28571.4
2019 Q4	37	0	0.0
2019 Q3	13	0	0.0
2019 Q2	10	0	0.0
2019 Q1	35	0	0.0
2018 Q4	17	0	0.0
2018 Q3	35	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

1 on file

2002 · 1 incident

August 8, 2002 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

T L H Coal Company · Fall from machine

OPERATOR HAD FINISHED WIPING OFF FRONT WINDSHIELD & WAS ATTEMPTING TO REENTER CAB OF MACHINE WHEN HE FELL OFF. HE STATED THAT HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT CAUSED HIM TO FALL OR IF HE JUST LOST HIS BAL ANCE. HE FELL TO THE GROUND STRIKING HIS HEAD & BACK ON THE GROUND, RESULTING IN FRACTURED SKULL & 3 SMALL BONES FRACTURED IN BACK.