Mining Incidents

Beacon Knob Mine Coal

Davis WV, Tucker County, WV  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4609380

Beacon Knob Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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
Dec 2012
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2011
12
citations
6
significant & substantial
$2,806
proposed penalties
$1,236
paid to date
44% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $1,570 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2011
16
inspections on record
369
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: 369 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Beacon Knob Mine has $3K in proposed MSHA penalties and $2K 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.
$3K
proposed penalties
$3K
current assessed
$1K
paid to date
$2K
outstanding
11 assessments are final orders; 0 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2014-06-25.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.

MSHA sampling at Beacon Knob Mine shows respirable coal dust averaging 0.16 mg/m3 (100% compliant) across 18 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.
0.16
dust avg (mg/m3)
0.59
dust max (mg/m3)
100%
within 1.5 mg/m3
18
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-06-10.
Noise
18%
over PEL
17
samples
Most recent sample: 2014-06-09.
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
2013 Q3 0 0 0
2013 Q2 3,757 1 0 266.2
2013 Q1 4,156 0 0 0.0
2012 Q4 3,082 0 0 0.0
2012 Q3 8,218 2 0 243.4
2012 Q2 5,521 0 0 0.0
2012 Q1 13,866 1 1 72.1
2011 Q4 7,904 0 0 0.0
Show 2 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q3 4,283 3 1 700.4
2011 Q2 0 0 0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2012 · 1 incident

December 5, 2012 WV · Coal maintenance man, mechanic, repair/serviceman, boilermaker, fueler, tire tech, field service tech HANDLING OF MATERIALS
Beacon Resources Inc. · Struck by falling object

Tech. was working on equipment with hood prop mount when the hood fell and landed on top of the tech's right hand cutting his middle and right index finger.

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