Mining Incidents

Silver Creek Mtn Mine Operation Coal

Controlled by Ronald J Kuperavage
New Philadelphia, Schuylkill County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3608716

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
2
Years on record
2012–2013
Latest incident
Oct 2013
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2004
18
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,845
proposed penalties
$1,678
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
2019 Q1 0 0 0
2018 Q4 0 0 0
2018 Q3 0 0 0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 994 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 1,166 1 0 857.6
2017 Q1 945 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 932 1 0 1073.0
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

2013 · 1 incident

October 23, 2013 PA · Coal welder (shop) SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Tuscarora Mines & Minerals Corp · Fall onto or against objects

Employee was repairing a tooth face which had broken off of a bucket of a 4600 Manitowoc dragline, while making an adjustment on his welder he tripped on a rock and fell down and landed on the rock with his left knee.

2012 · 1 incident

June 1, 2012 PA · Coal welder (shop) HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tuscarora Mines & Minerals Corp · Absorption of radiations, caustics, toxic and noxious substances

Employee states that after power washing he was caked up with grease so he used a little grease gobbler on his hands and arms to remove the grease. He rinsed several times and then splashed water on his face and it began to burn from the reside of the grease gobbler on his hands.