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EPB Strip Coal

E P Bender Coal Company · Surface

Controlled by The Estate of Martha A. Bender; Edward C Bender

Carrolltown, Cambria County, PA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3608398

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 6
Years on record: 2000–2019
Latest incident: Apr 2019

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2000

204

citations

105

significant & substantial

$41,970

proposed penalties

$41,281

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
2024 Q2	2,312	0	0	0.0
2024 Q1	2,500	0	0	0.0
2023 Q4	2,012	0	0	0.0
2023 Q3	2,681	0	0	0.0
2023 Q2	2,962	0	0	0.0
2023 Q1	3,031	0	0	0.0
2022 Q4	2,483	0	0	0.0
2022 Q3	2,886	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

6 on file

2019 · 1 incident

April 23, 2019 PA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech OTHER

E P Bender Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Dead due to natural causes

2013 · 1 incident

October 28, 2013 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON

E P Bender Coal Company · Fall onto or against objects

EE slipped on frost covered rear loader tire falling onto the tire injuring right ribs and shoulder.

2005 · 1 incident

December 17, 2005 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDLING OF MATERIALS

E P Bender Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Getting on D-11 dozer, slipped on snow covered track. Grabbed hand rail and bent left thumb back, dislocating thumb.

2003 · 1 incident

November 24, 2003 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman HANDLING OF MATERIALS

E P Bender Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

WHEN EE CAME INTO SHOP ON 11-26-03 HE SAID HIS LOWER BACK AND LEG WAS HURTING HIM. ON 11-28-03 HE CALLED TO SAY HE WAS GOING TO HOSPITAL. (HE SHOVELS UP COAL & PUSHES AUGERS ONTO SLED ON JOB. ) WHEN HE WENT TO E.R. THEY TOLD HIM IT WAS SCIATIC, GAVE MEDS & TOLD HIM TO REST & GO TO HIS DOCTOR THE NEXT WEEK. HIS DOCTOR (ON 12-2-03) SENT HIM FOR AN MRI ON 12-5-03. IT DID NOT SHOW A

2002 · 1 incident

September 30, 2002 PA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS

E P Bender Coal Company · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EMPLOYEE WAS STEPPING ONTO 992C CATERPILLAR HIGHLIFT TO CHECK ENGINE OIL. EMPLOYEE FELT A "POP" IN HIS LEFT KNEE AND WAS UNABLE TO MOVE HIS KNEE.

2000 · 1 incident

May 1, 2000 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman ALL OTHER OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESSES

E P Bender Coal Company · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

EE NOTED THE ONSET OF HIP PAIN IN MAY 2000 AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LEFT HIP AVASCULAR NECROSIS. HE STATES THAT THE PAIN IN HIS HIPS WAS SEVERELY AGGRAVATED AT WORK, WHICH REQUIRED HIM TO REMAIN ON HIS FEET ALL DAY AND WALK BACK AND FORTH IN A LIMITED AREA. MAY 7, 2001 HE UNDERWENT A LEFT HIP FREE VASCULARIZED FIBULAR GRAFT FOR AVASCULAR NECROSIS, CREST BONE GRAFT, & CORE DECOMPRESSI