Mining Incidents

#2 Coal

GRUNDY, Buchanan County, VA  ·  Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4407179

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
11
Years on record
2007–2010
Latest incident
Oct 2010
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2006
556
citations
142
significant & substantial
$484,874
proposed penalties
$123,698
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
2010 Q4 4,284 20 5 4668.5
2010 Q3 8,631 41 23 4750.3
2010 Q2 8,886 18 8 2025.7
2010 Q1 6,392 50 11 7822.3
2009 Q4 7,228 45 9 6225.8
2009 Q3 6,823 81 10 11871.6
2009 Q2 9,660 68 13 7039.3
2009 Q1 8,417 24 2 2851.4
Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

11 on file

2010 · 6 incidents

June 30, 2010 VA · Coal shuttle car operator, mantrip operator, ramcar operator, rail runner, buggy operator HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Tech Leasing & Rebuild, LLC · Struck by falling object

Jack set to change tire mantrip fell on victim's hand. Victim changing tire on mantrip and let the jack down with his hand under the ride.

June 4, 2010 VA · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech POWERED HAULAGE
Tech Leasing & Rebuild, LLC · Struck against stationary object

The employee was driving permissible man trip - hit an idle tail piece and lost control and was thrown from man trip.

2009 · 1 incident

2008 · 2 incidents

June 21, 2008 VA · Coal roof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs) MACHINERY
Tech Leasing & Rebuild, LLC · Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object

Injury of victim's finger due to placing hand on top of drill head of bolter.

2007 · 2 incidents

May 4, 2007 VA · Coal laborer, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, roof trimmer/scaler SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
Tech Leasing & Rebuild, LLC · Fall onto or against objects

EE a general laborer was helping move a mining machine when the cable that was hanging from the top fell on his back & neck knocking him against the rib.

April 16, 2007 VA · Coal INUNDATION
Tech Leasing & Rebuild, LLC · Accident type, without injuries

Heavy rain flooded section of mine covering bolter and shuttle car with water. No reportable injuries.