Mining Incidents

Auger No 3132 Coal

Controlled by Robert E Elkin
Vintondale, Cambria County, PA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3609187

Auger No 3132 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2012
Latest incident
Sep 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2005
20
citations
8
significant & substantial
$4,621
proposed penalties
$4,621
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2004
42
inspections on record
531
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: 531 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 No 3132 has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 0 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.
$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
16 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2015-12-07.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Auger No 3132 shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.13 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 80 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.
0.13
dust avg (mg/m3)
1.06
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
80
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-03-08.
Silica (quartz)
0.5
silica avg (%)
0.5
silica max (%)
1
samples
Most recent sample: 2018-04-12.
Noise
3%
over PEL
38
samples
Most recent sample: 2019-01-03.
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
2019 Q1 960 0 0 0.0
2018 Q4 360 0 0 0.0
2018 Q3 432 0 0 0.0
2018 Q2 240 0 0 0.0
2018 Q1 332 0 0 0.0
2017 Q4 0 0 0
2017 Q3 1,135 0 0 0.0
2017 Q2 774 0 0 0.0
Show 53 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2017 Q1 795 0 0 0.0
2016 Q4 1,408 0 0 0.0
2016 Q3 508 0 0 0.0
2016 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2016 Q1 0 0 0
2015 Q4 513 1 0 1949.3
2015 Q3 516 0 0 0.0
2015 Q2 1,218 1 0 821.0
2015 Q1 396 0 0 0.0
2014 Q4 60 0 0 0.0
2014 Q3 426 0 0 0.0
2014 Q2 336 0 0 0.0
2014 Q1 377 0 0 0.0
2013 Q4 407 0 0 0.0
2013 Q3 1,125 0 0 0.0
2013 Q2 693 1 0 1443.0
2013 Q1 0 0 0
2012 Q4 408 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 495 4 2 8080.8
2012 Q2 432 1 0 2314.8
2012 Q1 240 0 0 0.0
2011 Q4 816 3 0 3676.5
2011 Q3 1,344 2 1 1488.1
2011 Q2 624 2 1 3205.1
2011 Q1 744 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 744 0 0 0.0
2010 Q3 768 1 1 1302.1
2010 Q2 224 0 0 0.0
2010 Q1 234 0 0 0.0
2009 Q4 48 0 0 0.0
2009 Q3 0 0 0
2009 Q2 216 0 0 0.0
2009 Q1 528 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 696 0 0 0.0
2008 Q3 1,060 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 1,356 0 0 0.0
2008 Q1 864 0 0 0.0
2007 Q4 990 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 886 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 686 0 0 0.0
2007 Q1 549 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 307 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 582 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 456 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 264 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 297 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 282 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 528 1 1 1893.9
2005 Q1 600 3 2 5000.0
2004 Q4 408 0 0 0.0
2004 Q3 704 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,511 0 0 0.0
2004 Q1 390 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2012 · 1 incident

September 11, 2012 PA · Coal auger helper MACHINERY
E E & S Auger Mining Inc · Struck by falling object

Was starting the cutting head. Two rocks slid off the top of the cutter head hitting the right leg of ee. His feet was in wet coal so his feet did not slide sideways allowing him to be pushed to the ground. it appeared that his right leg was injured between the knee and hips

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The full compliance file on Auger No 3132

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.