Mining Incidents

Airport Mine 1 Coal

Controlled by Jerry W Wharton
Wise, Wise County, VA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4407384

Airport Mine 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2019
Latest incident
Jun 2019
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2018
8
citations
0
significant & substantial
$1,642
proposed penalties
$1,136
paid to date
69% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $506 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2018
17
inspections on record
579
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 579 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Airport Mine 1 has $2K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$2K
proposed penalties
$1K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
7 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2020-07-28.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Airport Mine 1 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.07 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 103 samples.

Health sampling
A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.
Respirable coal dust
Respirable coal dust and silica figures cover coal facilities. Dust compliance is measured against the current 1.5 mg/m3 standard; samples predating the 2014 standard are included, so compliance rates are a coarse historical signal.
0.07
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.56
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
103
samples
Most recent sample: 2022-08-11.
Silica (quartz)
15.4
silica avg (%)
35.1
silica max (%)
5
samples
Most recent sample: 2021-11-26.
Noise
0%
over PEL
23
samples
Most recent sample: 2021-11-16.
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 0 0 0
2023 Q2 0 0 0
2023 Q1 0 0 0
2022 Q4 0 0 0
2022 Q3 1,743 0 0 0.0
2022 Q2 1,290 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 1,711 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 1,358 0 0 0.0
Show 14 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2021 Q3 8,300 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 7,061 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 5,430 0 0 0.0
2020 Q4 3,949 0 0 0.0
2020 Q3 560 1 0 1785.7
2020 Q2 3,817 0 0 0.0
2020 Q1 23,762 2 0 84.2
2019 Q4 19,822 0 0 0.0
2019 Q3 22,440 2 0 89.1
2019 Q2 20,161 1 0 49.6
2019 Q1 22,303 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 20,042 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 20,435 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 6,296 2 0 317.7
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2019 · 1 incident

June 27, 2019 VA · Coal FIRE
J.W. Construction Company, Inc. · Accident type, without injuries

D8T Cat dozer was on fire when day shift foreman arrived on job, approx. 4:46 AM. Dozer was parked at time of fire. No 3rd shift at our mines. Local Fire Dept was called out.

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The full compliance file on Airport Mine 1

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.