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No. 29 Strip Coal

Humphreys Enterprises, Inc, · Surface

Controlled by William D Humphreys

Norton, Wise County, VA · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4407370

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 2
Years on record: 2017
Latest incident: Oct 2017

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2017

citations

significant & substantial

$2,026

proposed penalties

$2,026

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
2020 Q4	0	0	0
2020 Q3	921	0	0	0.0
2020 Q2	1,086	3	0	2762.4
2020 Q1	948	0	0	0.0
2019 Q4	534	0	0	0.0
2019 Q3	956	1	1	1046.0
2019 Q2	2,007	0	0	0.0
2019 Q1	1,743	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

2 on file

2017 · 2 incidents

October 18, 2017 VA · Coal bulldozer operator, universal operator, heavy equipment operator, operating engineer MACHINERY

Humphreys Enterprises, Inc, · Struck against a moving object

Employee stated that they were operating a dozer working the highwall. As they were prying on rock, the track slid off rock hitting the wall causing dozer to jar the employee resulting in pain in the neck, back, and leg. Went to doctor on 10/20/17 to get checked resulting in the first lost work shift.

September 13, 2017 VA · Coal front-end loader, scraper-loader operator, pan operator, payloader, scraper rig operator POWERED HAULAGE

Humphreys Enterprises, Inc, · Struck against a moving object

Employee stated was operating a coal loader in the coal pit. EE was loading coal from the stockpile and also breaking coal. The jarring of the coal loader caused pain to EE's neck/back area throughout the shift. Kept working but missed 9/15/17 shift to go to doctor to get checked out, thus reportable.