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Mountaineer #1 Coal

Mountaineer Mining Corporation · Surface

Controlled by Robert George Koval

Shanksville, Somerset County, PA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 3608501

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2016–2017
Latest incident: Mar 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2003

citations

significant & substantial

$5,785

proposed penalties

$5,785

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
2023 Q4	203	0	0.0
2023 Q3	572	0	0.0
2023 Q2	637	1	1569.9
2022 Q4	48	0	0.0
2020 Q4	0	0
2020 Q3	0	0
2020 Q2	0	4
2020 Q1	2,626	1	380.8

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

2017 · 1 incident

March 15, 2017 PA · Coal haul/off road/coal/ore/pit/quarry/rock/rubber tire truck driver, transportation truck driver OTHER

Mountaineer Mining Corporation · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Sitting in tractor & trailer waiting to get loaded and (2) employees found driver unresponsive in the truck. Ambulance was called and the individual was transported to Somerset Hospital and pronounced dead at hospital.

2016 · 1 incident

August 29, 2016 PA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)

Mountaineer Mining Corporation · Struck by flying object

Driving track pin with sledge hammer, sliver of metal from pin entered knee joint