Elbert, Mcdowell County,
WV
·
Abandoned and Sealed
MSHA Mine ID: 4609180
Apache Mine has $1.3M in proposed MSHA penalties and $1.3M outstanding across 10 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
13
Years on record
2009–2011
Latest incident
Mar 2011
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2007
367
citations
157
significant & substantial
$1,338,086
proposed penalties
$2,613
paid to date
0% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,335,473 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2007
36
inspections on record
1,732
inspection hours
21.2
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.
367 citations across 1,732 inspection hours.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Apache Mine has $1.3M in proposed MSHA penalties and $1.3M outstanding across 10 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.
$1.3M
proposed penalties
$1.3M
current assessed
$3K
paid to date
$1.3M
outstanding
350 assessments are final orders; 10 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2011-03-03.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
MSHA sampling at Apache Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.72 mg/m3 (88% compliant) across 177 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.
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
2011 Q1
10
35
16
3500000.0
2010 Q4
10
25
10
2500000.0
2010 Q3
19,003
15
3
789.3
2010 Q2
13,389
15
6
1120.3
2010 Q1
13,597
25
6
1838.6
2009 Q4
8,906
71
49
7972.2
2009 Q3
7,535
37
25
4910.4
2009 Q1
10
72
21
7200000.0
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Quarter
Hours worked
Citations
S&S
Per 1M hrs
2008 Q3
3,816
3
2
786.2
2008 Q2
4,584
10
0
2181.5
2008 Q1
4,375
3
1
685.7
2007 Q4
3,266
1
0
306.2
2007 Q1
13,794
0
0
0.0
2006 Q4
13,718
0
0
0.0
2006 Q3
11,310
0
0
0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
13 on file
2011 · 2 incidents
March 2, 2011WV · Coalmaintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service techMACHINERY
Repairing leveling chain on opposite side roof bolter. Mechanic went to stand up and fell forward, struck hand onto boom arm to hold himself up from falling into arm of bolter and his fingers(middle & ring) got caught between 2 boom arms cutting the 2 fingers off at 2nd knuckle.
Man was watching bolt man pin up spot bolt, when a piece of rock fell striking machine. Man had his hand on side of machine where rock landed, rock was 2'X1'X8" thick. Rock landed on his left hand catching and cutting his ring finger.
June 30, 2010WV · Coalroof bolter, rock bolter, pinner, mobile roof support operator (mrs)FALL OF ROOF OR BACK
Injured says he came thru man door on belt line and a piece of rock fell from the top hitting his leg and scraping skin. Victim says he just wanted to report it and then later says he went to the doctor.
Rider seam rolled up and bolts failed to 6 anchored in above rider. Bolts broke around edge and intersections fell. Occurred in worked out abandoned area.
January 27, 2010WV · Coaldiscontinued 1/31/2014. several other codes cover scoop car operatorPOWERED HAULAGE
Scoop oper. plaster stopping-height 8' elevated bucket plastering top part of stopping, stepped down and got between bucket and stopping. Had back towards scoop bucket, leaked down onto back of scoop operator, scoop operator said he he was ok. Operator checked and brakes worked.
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