Mining Incidents

Auger 4 Coal

Controlled by Timothy J Gregory
Holsopple, PA, Somerset County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609040

Auger 4 has $47K 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
2014
Latest incident
Mar 2014
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
18
citations
6
significant & substantial
$46,625
proposed penalties
$7,025
paid to date
15% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $39,600 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
19
inspections on record
387
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: 387 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Auger 4 has $47K 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.
$47K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
15 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-04-09.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Auger 4 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.18 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 12 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.
0.18
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.57
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
12
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-04-09.
Noise
38%
over PEL
13
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-01-09.
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
2014 Q2 800 1 1 1250.0
2014 Q1 1,642 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 612 6 1 9803.9
2013 Q3 510 3 0 5882.4
2013 Q1 499 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 0 0 0
2012 Q2 0 0 0
2012 Q1 0 0 0
Show 27 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 0 0 0
2011 Q2 0 0 0
2011 Q1 0 0 0
2010 Q4 0 0 0
2010 Q3 1,835 2 1 1089.9
2010 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 0 0 0
2009 Q1 573 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 528 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 0 0 0
2008 Q2 678 1 0 1474.9
2008 Q1 415 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 894 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 522 2 1 3831.4
2007 Q2 603 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 692 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 1,002 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 1,018 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 1,171 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 1,010 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 1,005 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 1,259 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 290 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 0 0 0
2004 Q3 815 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2014 · 1 incident

March 14, 2014 PA · Coal laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON
West Virginia Industrial Services, Inc. · Over-exertion (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee was working on around a auger when he stepped on the edge of the sled and slipped twisting his left knee, He was seen at a medical center and had a x ray and a MRI , both were negative,He was told that he had a strain.

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The full compliance file on Auger 4

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.