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North Surface Mine Coal

HMC Mining LLC · Surface

Controlled by Peabody Energy Corporation

Wharton, Boone County, WV · Abandoned

MSHA Mine ID: 4608895

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Fatalities: 0
Total incidents: 1
Years on record: 2006
Latest incident: Jan 2006

Compliance record

MSHA citations since 2005

citations

significant & substantial

$1,003

proposed penalties

$1,003

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
2007 Q3	1,172	0	0	0.0
2007 Q2	4,843	0	0	0.0
2007 Q1	16,168	0	0	0.0
2006 Q4	17,557	0	0	0.0
2006 Q3	16,471	0	0	0.0
2006 Q2	17,789	5	4	281.1
2006 Q1	16,461	0	0	0.0
2005 Q4	15,823	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

2006 · 1 incident

January 13, 2006 WV · Coal miner, prospector, nec MACHINERY

HMC Mining LLC · Struck by falling object

Cutting a tree down and there was a rotten tree above the one being cut down. The limbs of the two trees entangled and the one being cut down pulled the rotten tree down causing the rotten tree to strike employee in the spine area of the neck.