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No.1 Strip & Auger Coal

Balor Enterprises LLC · Surface

Controlled by Joe Ballard

Hurley, Buchanan County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407010

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

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2001

citations

significant & substantial

$579

proposed penalties

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
2002 Q3	2,164	0	0	0.0
2002 Q2	3,875	0	0	0.0
2002 Q1	3,177	4	2	1259.0
2001 Q4	2,860	0	0	0.0
2001 Q3	2,338	0	0	0.0
2001 Q2	1,530	5	1	3268.0
2001 Q1	273	0	0	0.0
2000 Q4	1,438	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

2002 · 1 incident

February 14, 2002 VA · Coal blaster, shooter, shotfirer, explosive worker, powder gang/monkey EXPLOSIVES AND BREAKING AGENTS

Balor Enterprises LLC · Struck by flying object

A HOLE BLEW OUT DURING A BLAST, A SMALL ROCK RICOCHED FROM THE GROUND OR A NEARBY TRAILOR AND STRUCK EE ON THE HEAD. FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED AT THE MINE SITE. THAT NIGHT HE WENT TO A DOCTOR FOR A TETNUS SHOT AND THE DOCTOR CLOSED THE LACERATION WITH A BUTTERFLY CLOSURER.