Mining Incidents

MELLON # 5 MINE Coal

Coal Loaders, Inc. · Surface
Controlled by Edward J Ratay Jr
Ligonier, Westmoreland County, PA  ·  Active
MSHA Mine ID: 3610257

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2025
Latest incident
Nov 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2019
7
citations
2
significant & substantial
$1,161
proposed penalties
$1,161
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
2025 Q4 2,255 0 0 0.0
2025 Q3 2,547 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 2,456 0 0 0.0
2025 Q1 2,468 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 4,393 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 4,248 0 0 0.0
2024 Q2 5,363 0 0 0.0
2024 Q1 4,977 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

1 on file

2025 · 1 incident

November 6, 2025 PA · Coal miner, prospector, nec SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Coal Loaders, Inc. · Fall onto or against objects

Employee accessing the cab of the skid loader, miss stepped and bumped shin on the bucket.